639
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Thai solar calendar | 1181–1182 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 765 or 384 or −388 — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 766 or 385 or −387 |
Year 639 (DCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 639 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
Europe
- regenton Clovis' behalf).
Arabian Empire
- conquering Egypt.[2]
- Abu Musa al-Asha'ari destroy Susa in the lower Zagros Mountains.
- Plague of Emmaus: An epidemic disease which has broken out in Emmaus (Imwas) in Palestine strikes the city and the military camps of the Muslim Arabs, killing most of its population (estimated at 25,000 people) until it subsides in October.
Asia
- The Xueyantuo assaults the Chinese-conquered vassal of Eastern Tujue. Although simultaneously fighting in Korea against Goguryeo, Emperor Tai Zong commissions his famous general Li Shiji to fend off attacks in the campaign against Xueyantuo.
- An unsuccessful revolt of Prince Kürşat (of the Eastern Turks) breaks out in China.
By topic
Religion
- Eligius succeeds Acarius as bishop of Doornik and Noyon. He becomes constituted guardian of the towns of Vermandois, which also include Ghent and Kortrijk (Flanders).[3]
- The First at this date.
Births
- Aldegonde, Frankish abbess(approximate date)
- Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne (approximate date)
- Ecgberht of Ripon, bishop of Lindisfarne (d. 729)
- Yeon Namsan, military leader of Goguryeo (d. 701)
Deaths
- January 19 – Dagobert I, king of the Franks (b. c. 603)
- K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I, ajaw of Piedras Negras
- November 27 – Acarius, bishop of Doornik and Noyon
- Suhayl ibn Amr (b. c. 556)
- Abu Jandal ibn Suhayl (b. 594 - 601)
- Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, commander of the Rashidun Caliphate (b. 583)
- Muadh ibn Jabal, early Muslim scholar
- Shurahbil ibn Hasana, Rashidun Caliphate general
- Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan, general of the Rashidun Caliphate
- Faílbe Flann mac Áedo Duib, king of Munster (Ireland)
- Wang Gui, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 571)
- Yang Gongren, chancellor of the Tang dynasty
References
- ^ Al-Maqrizi, Mawaiz wa al-'i'tibar bi dhikr al-khitat wa al-'athar
- ^ Alfred Butler, "The Invasion of Egypt", p. 213
- ^ Saint Quen of Rouen; trans. Jo Ann McNamara. "The life of Saint Eligius" (Vita Sanci Eligii)