652 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 652
DCLII
Ab urbe condita 1405
Armenian calendar 101
ԹՎ ՃԱ
Assyrian calendar 5402
Balinese saka calendar 573–574
Bengali calendar 58–59
Berber calendar 1602
Buddhist calendar 1196
Burmese calendar 14
Byzantine calendar 6160–6161
Chinese calendar 辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
3349 or 3142
    — to —
壬子年 (Water Rat)
3350 or 3143
Coptic calendar 368–369
Discordian calendar 1818
Ethiopian calendar 644–645
Hebrew calendar 4412–4413
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 708–709
 - Shaka Samvat 573–574
 - Kali Yuga 3752–3753
Holocene calendar 10652
Iranian calendar 30–31
Islamic calendar 31–32
Japanese calendar Hakuchi 3
(白雉３年)
Javanese calendar 543–544
Julian calendar 652
DCLII
Korean calendar 2985
Minguo calendar 1260 before ROC
民前1260年
Nanakshahi calendar −816
Seleucid era 963/964 AG
Thai solar calendar 1194–1195
Tibetan calendar ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Iron-Boar)
778 or 397 or −375
    — to —
ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Water-Rat)
779 or 398 or −374
The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an (China)

Year 652 (DCLII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 652 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

  • King Rothari dies after a 16-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Rodoald as king of the Lombards.

Britain

  • King Penda of Mercia invades Bernicia, and besieges King Oswiu at Bamburgh, in North East England.

Arab Empire

  • Arab–Byzantine War: An Arab fleet under Abdullah ibn Sa'ad defeats the Byzantine fleet (500 ships) off the coast of Alexandria.[1]
  • Siege of Dongola: A Rashidun army (5,000 men) under Abdullah ibn Sa'ad besieges Dongola in the Kingdom of Makuria (modern Sudan).
  • Uthman ibn Affan establishes a treaty (the Baqt) between the Christian Nubians and the Muslims in Egypt, that lasts for six centuries,[2] including the tribute of 400 slaves annually.[3]
  • Abdel al Rahman ibn Awf, companion (sahabah) of Muhammad, frees 30,000 slaves at his death (approximate date).

Asia

  • The registers of population are prepared in Japan. Fifty houses are made a township, and for each township there is appointed an elder. The houses are all associated in groups of five for mutual protection, with one elder to supervise them one with another. This system prevails until the era of World War II.
  • The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda is constructed in Chang'an (modern Xi'an), during the Tang dynasty (China). It is completed in the same year, during the reign of Emperor Gao Zong.

Births

  • Chlothar III, king of Neustria and Burgundy (d. 673)
  • Constantine IV, Byzantine emperor (d. 685)
  • Li Hong, prince of the Tang dynasty (d. 675)

Deaths

  • Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, uncle of Muhammad (approximate date)
  • Abdel Rahman ibn Awf, companion of Muhammad (approximate date)
  • Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, Arabic leader (b. 560)
  • Emmeram, bishop of Regensburg (approximate date)
  • Itta of Metz, widow of Pippin of Landen (b. 592)
  • Li Tai, prince of the Tang dynasty (b. 618)
  • Olympius, exarch of Ravenna
  • Rothari, king of the Lombards

References

  1. ^ Muir 1898, p. 206, Chapter XXVIII, "Caliphate of Othman".
  2. ^ Jennings, Anne M. (1995). The Nubians of West Aswan: Village Women in the Midst of Change. Lynne Reinner. p. 26. ISBN 1-55587-592-0.
  3. ^ Manning, P. (1990). Slavery and African life: occidental, oriental, and African slave trades. Storbritannien: Cambridge University Press. p. 28-29

Sources

  • Muir, William (1898). The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall, from Original Sources (3rd ed.). London: Smith, Elder. p. 206.