632

Year 632 (DCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 632 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

By place

Arabia

• Imamah (Shia doctrine) of Ali Ibn Abi Talib
  , for the religious, spiritual and political leadership of the Ummah, begins.
• June 8 – Muhammad dies at Medina at the age of 62, after an illness and fever.
• laqab
  Al-Siddiq) becomes the Caliph.
• Byzantine Empire, led by Usama ibn Zayd. This expedition is sent based on Muhammad's decision before his death.^[1]
• Ridda Wars: Abu Bakr launches a series of military campaigns against rebel Arabian tribes, to re-establish the power of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and to secure Muhammad's legacy.
• Ha'il (Saudi Arabia
  ).
• Musaylimah, on the plain of Aqraba
  .

• April 8 – King Charibert II is assassinated at Blaye (Gironde), (possibly on orders of his half-brother Dagobert I), along with his infant son. Dagobert I claims Aquitaine and Gascony, becoming the most powerful Merovingian king in the West.
• Part of
  Alciocus leads 9,000 Bulgars from Pannonia to refuge with Dagobert (who massacres them), then, with 700 survivors, settles with the Wends
  , under the protection of Walluc.
• Dulo clan,^[2] takes power from the Pannonian Avars and establishes Old Great Bulgaria in the area of Black Cumania. Kubrat's rule stretches from Dacia to Poltava
  .

• Sassanid Dynasty (modern Iran
  ).

• annular eclipse of the sun occurs.^[3]
• Seondeok is crowned queen of Silla (Korea).^[4]

Armenia

• The
  Armenian Highlands.^[5]

• Muslims who have accompanied him for the Hajj
  (pilgrimage).
• caliph (vicegerent of the messenger of God). He establishes the Rashidun Caliphate until 661
  .
• Xuanzang, Chinese traveler, writes about two huge statues of Buddha carved out of a mountainside in the Bamiyan Valley (Afghanistan).

Births

• Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, Arab general (d. 702)
• Vindicianus, bishop of Cambrai (approximate date)

Deaths

• January 27 – Ibrahim, son of Muhammad
• January 31 – Máedóc, bishop of Ferns
• April 8 – Charibert II, king of Aquitaine
• Islamic Prophet (b. 570
  )
• August 11 – Rusticula (b. c. 556), abbess of Arles
• Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad
• October 12 or 633 – Edwin of Northumbria, king of Deira and Bernicia
• October 29 – Saint Colman mac Duagh, Irish abbot and bishop
• Abu Dujana
  , companion of Muhammad
• Chilperic, son of Charibert II
• Abdullah ibn Suhayl (b. 594) (martyred)
• Abu Hudhayfa ibn Utba (b. 581) (martyred)
• Salim Mawla Abu Hudhayfa (b. c. 594–596
  ) (martyred)
• Zayd ibn al-Khattab (b. before 584) (martyred)
• Musaylimah
  , Arabian prophet

References