648

Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century 7th century 8th century
Decades:	620s 630s 640s 650s 660s
Years:	645 646 647 648 649 650 651
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648 by topic
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648 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 648
DCXLVIII

Ab urbe condita 1401

Armenian calendar 97
ԹՎ ՂԷ

Assyrian calendar 5398

Balinese saka calendar 569–570

Bengali calendar 54–55

Berber calendar 1598

Buddhist calendar 1192

Burmese calendar 10

Byzantine calendar 6156–6157

Chinese calendar 丁未年 (Fire Goat)
3345 or 3138
— to —
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
3346 or 3139

Coptic calendar 364–365

Discordian calendar 1814

Ethiopian calendar 640–641

Hebrew calendar 4408–4409

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 704–705

- Shaka Samvat 569–570

- Kali Yuga 3748–3749

Holocene calendar 10648

Iranian calendar 26–27

Islamic calendar 27–28

Japanese calendar Taika 4
(大化4年)

Javanese calendar 539–540

Julian calendar 648
DCXLVIII

Korean calendar 2981

Minguo calendar 1264 before ROC
民前1264年

Nanakshahi calendar −820

Seleucid era 959/960 AG

Thai solar calendar 1190–1191

Tibetan calendar 阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
774 or 393 or −379
— to —
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
775 or 394 or −378

Fang Xuanling (579–648)

Year 648 (DCXLVIII ) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 648 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

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By place

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Byzantine Empire

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Emperor Constans II issues an imperial edict forbidding Monothelitism to be discussed, to quiet the intense controversy caused by the Monothelete doctrine. This edict, distributed by patriarch Paul II in Constans' name, is known as the Typos .

Europe

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King Sigebert III of Austrasia is advised by Remaclus to establish a double-monastery, at Stavelot and Malmedy. As a missionary bishop, he founds an abbey on the River Amblève (modern Belgium).

Britain

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King Cenwalh of Wessex returns from a 3-year exile in East Anglia, to reclaim his kingdom. He gives 3,000 hides of land around Ashdown to his nephew Cuthred, possibly sub-king of Berkshire (England).
Cenwahl invites bishop Birinus to establish under his direction the Old Minster in Winchester. Together they have a small stone church built.^[1]

Asia

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Tang general Ashina She'er re-establishes Tang control of Karasahr, and leads a military campaign against the Tarim Basin kingdom of Kucha in Xinjiang, a vassal of the Western Turkic Khaganate.

Americas

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In an early skirmish in the run up to the Second Tikal–Calakmul War, Bʼalaj Chan Kʼawiil scores a military victory, apparently over his half-brother, who had galled him by using the same royal emblem (or emblem glyph) as he did.
Dos Pilas breaks away from Tikal and becomes a vassal state of Calakmul.

By topic

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Literature

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The Book of Jin is compiled in China during the Tang dynasty. Its chief editor is the chancellor Fang Xuanling, who dies in this year as well.

Religion

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Pope Theodore I excommunicates Paul II of Constantinople.

Births

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Kōbun, emperor of Japan (d. 672)
Radbod, king of Frisia (d. 719)
Tōchi, Japanese princess (d. 678)

Deaths

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Fang Xuanling, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 579)
John III of the Sedre, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.^[2]
Ma Zhou, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 601)
Xiao, empress of the Sui dynasty

References

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^ Kirby 2000, p. 45.
^ Teule, Herman G. B. (2011). "Yuḥanon of the Sedre". In Sebastian P. Brock; Aaron M. Butts; George A. Kiraz; Lucas Van Rompay (eds.). Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition. Retrieved July 8, 2020.

Sources

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Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings (revised ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.

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