662

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:	6th century 7th century 8th century
Decades:	640s 650s 660s 670s 680s
Years:	659 660 661 662 663 664 665

662 in various calendars

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) 3358 or 3298     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3359 or 3299
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	N/A
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

Icon of Maximus the Confessor (c. 580–662)

Events

Europe

• 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

• 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

• 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).

Religion

• 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

• June 22 – Rui Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 716)
• Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn, Muslim martyr (b. 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

• 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]

References

1. Patrick J. Geary, "Before France & Germany, the Creation & Transformation of the Merovingian World". (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 180
2. Kriti M. Shah, "The Pashtuns, the Taliban, and America’s Longest War", Asian Survey, Vol. 57, Number 6 (2017) pp. 981–1007