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Birth 661 Birth, Marriage, Death in the UK 661
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661
| Centuries: |
6th century · 7th century · 8th century |
| Decades: |
630s 640s 650s 660s 670s 680s 690s |
| Years: |
658 659 660 661 662 663 664 |
| 661 by topic
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| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
661 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
661
DCLXI |
| Ab urbe condita |
1414 |
| Armenian calendar |
110
ԹՎ ՃԺ |
| Bahá'í calendar |
-1183 – -1182 |
| Berber calendar |
1611 |
| Buddhist calendar |
1205 |
| Burmese calendar |
23 |
| Byzantine calendar |
6169 – 6170 |
| Chinese calendar |
庚申年十一月廿五日
(3297/3357-11-25)
— to —
辛酉年十二月初五日
(3298/3358-12-5) |
| Coptic calendar |
377 – 378 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
653 – 654 |
| Hebrew calendar |
4421 – 4422 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
716 – 717 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
583 – 584 |
| - Kali Yuga |
3762 – 3763 |
| Holocene calendar |
10661 |
| Iranian calendar |
39 – 40 |
| Islamic calendar |
40 – 41 |
| Japanese calendar |
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| Korean calendar |
2994 |
| Thai solar calendar |
1204 |
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- Perctarit and Godepert become co-rulers of the Lombards, following the death of their father Aripert.
- The Imperial fleet of Japan puts to sea for the expedition for Kyūshū by the order of Empress Saimei. On its way, Princess Nukata composes a famous poem at Nikitatsu in the province of Iyo.
- Empress Saimei moves her residence to the palace of Asakura in Kyūshū. The Palace is built of trees cut don from the shrines. Two months later she dies. People say that it is because the Gods are angry for destroying shrine buildings and curses her.
- Emperor Tenji ascends to the throne of Japan because of Empress Saimei's death.
- King Munmu becomes the 30th ruler of the Silla dynasty.
- Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib is assassinated; with his assassination the Rashidun Caliphate ends and Muawiyah I founds the Umayyad caliphate. [1]
- February 15 — Princess Oku
- Empress Gemmei, empress of Japan
- Chen Zi'ang, Chinese poet and official (d. 702)
- Liu Zhiji, Chinese historian (d. 721)
- Ali, cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad and caliph
- Empress Kōgyoku (also Empress Saimei), empress of Japan
- Aripert, king of the Lombards
- Saint Finan, Bishop of Lindisfarne
- January 3 — Benjamin, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria
- ^ Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.
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