Year 646 (DCXLVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 646 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

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By place

Byzantine Empire

• Alexandria is recaptured by the Arabs after a Byzantine attempt to retake Egypt fails, ending nearly 1,000 year of Greaco-Roman civilization in Egypt.

China

• The Xueyantuo state is destroyed by the Chinese Tang Dynasty, ending Emperor Taizong's campaign against Xueyantuo.

Japan

• An edict of the Taika Reforms is promulgated in Japan.
• Emperor K toku makes a decree about the policies of building tombs. He discontinues the old customs of sacrificing people in honor of a dead man. He forbids ill-considered rituals about purgation. He also issues an edict about the abolishment of laborers, the foundation of ranks and local government policies.

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Births

• Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Umayyad caliph
• Li Sujie
• Sun Guoting

Deaths

• Sulpitius the Pious, Bishop of Bourges
• Liu Ji, Chinese chancellor and poet of the Tang Dynasty
• Zhang Liang

References

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