Year 662 (DCLXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 662 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.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 662 DCLXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1415 |
| Armenian calendar | 111 ԹՎ ՃԺԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5412 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 583–584 |
| Bengali calendar | 69 |
| Berber calendar | 1612 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1206 |
| Burmese calendar | 24 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6170–6171 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3359 or 3152 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3360 or 3153 |
| Coptic calendar | 378–379 |
| Discordian calendar | 1828 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 654–655 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4422–4423 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 718–719 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 583–584 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3762–3763 |
| Holocene calendar | 10662 |
| Iranian calendar | 40–41 |
| Islamic calendar | 41–42 |
| Japanese calendar | Hakuchi 13 (白雉１３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 553–554 |
| Julian calendar | 662 DCLXII |
| Korean calendar | 2995 |
| Minguo calendar | 1250 before ROC 民前1250年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −806 |
| Seleucid era | 973/974 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1204–1205 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 788 or 407 or −365 — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 789 or 408 or −364 |
Events
editBy place
editEurope
edit- King Godepert makes war against his brother Perctarit. He seeks the aid of Grimoald I, duke of Benevento, who has him assassinated; his son Raginpert escapes. Grimoald usurps the throne and becomes ruler of the Lombard Kingdom. Perctarit is exiled, and seeks refuge in Gaul and Britain.
- The Franks take advantage of the Lombard civil war and invade Northern Italy, but are defeated by Grimoald I. King Chlothar III gives Austrasia to his youngest brother Childeric II. He is raised on the shield of his warriors and proclaimed king of Austrasia.[1]
Britain
edit- King Swithelm of Essex is converted to Christianity and baptised by Cedd, at the court of King Æthelwald of East Anglia, who acts as his sponsor. East Anglia may have held some sort of overlordship over Essex at this time (approximate date).
Arab Empire
edit- Muslim Conquest: Arab forces of the Umayyad Caliphate resume the push to capture Persian lands, and begin to move towards the lands east and north of the plateau, towards Greater Khorasan (Iran) and the Silk Road along Transoxiana.
- Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan, Muslim general and a member of the Umayyad clan, is appointed governor of Iraq (Basra) and the former Persian provinces (approximate date).
By topic
editReligion
edit- August 13 – Maximus the Confessor, Byzantine monk and theologian, dies in exile in Lazica (modern Georgia), on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea.
Births
edit- June 22 – Rui Zong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (d. 716)
- Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn, Muslim martyr (d. 680)
- Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Japanese poet (approximate date)
- Kusakabe, Japanese crown prince (d. 689)
- Odile of Alsace, Frankish abbess (approximate date)
- Rumwold of Buckingham, Anglo-Saxon prince and saint
Deaths
edit- August 13 – Maximus the Confessor, Byzantine theologian
- Godepert, king of the Lombards
- Rumwold of Buckingham, Anglo-Saxon prince and saint
- Lai Ji, official of the Tang dynasty (b. 610)
- Qais Abdur Rashid from whom all Pashtuns descend according to local Pashto folklore[2]