626

History Portal | Portal Biographies | Current Events | Calendar years

◄ | 6th century | 7th century | 8th century | ► ◄ | 590er | 600 | 610er | 620s | 630 model | 640 mm | 650 | ► ◄ ◄ | ◄ | 622 | 623 | 624 | 625 | 626 | 627 | 628 | 629 | 630 | ► | ► ►

Heads of State

Year of the Fire Dog丙戌( at the beginning of the year Wood Rooster乙酉)

Era of Diocletian: 342/343 ( year November )

Syria: 937/938 (October)

Events

July 29 seventh August: Konstantin Opel is by the Avars, Slavs and Persians besieged ( siege of Constantinople Opel ).
The last Byzantine possessions in Spain lost to the Visigoths.
Edinburgh is founded by Edwin of Northumbria.
Penda is king of Mercia.
Romanus is Bishop of Rouen as the successor of Hidulphe.
The Synod of Clichy regulates, inter alia, re-balance power between the Merovingians in the Frankish Empire.
Godinus, the son of the late Burgundian mayor of the palace Warnachar, marries his stepmother Bertha, after Chlothar II military action against him. Godinus flees with Bertha the Austrasian King Dagobert I., but is eventually slain by Chlothar at Chartres.
Dagobert I built on the grave of St. Denis abbey and church of Saint -Denis.
Arioald is king of the Lombards after the death Adaloalds.

July 2: Li Shimin, son of the Tang Emperor Tang Gaozu, murdered in Chang'an his two brothers, Li Yuanji and Crown Prince Li Jiancheng.
Emperor Tang Gaozu of China resigns in favor of his son Li Shimin, who calls himself as Emperor Tang Taizong.
Alliance between the Byzantine Empire and the Khazars against the Sassanid Empire.

Eanflæd, Northumbrian princess and saint († 690 )
Gertrude of Nivelles, abbess Belgian († 659 )
Heraklonas, Byzantine Emperor († 641 )
Al -Husayn ibn ' Alī, the grandson of Muhammad and leader of the Shiites († 680)
Tenji, the Japanese emperor († 672 )

15197