Year 656 (DCLVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 656 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:
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Years:
656 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar656
DCLVI
Ab urbe condita1409
Armenian calendar105
ԹՎ ՃԵ
Assyrian calendar5406
Balinese saka calendar577–578
Bengali calendar63
Berber calendar1606
Buddhist calendar1200
Burmese calendar18
Byzantine calendar6164–6165
Chinese calendar乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
3353 or 3146
    — to —
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
3354 or 3147
Coptic calendar372–373
Discordian calendar1822
Ethiopian calendar648–649
Hebrew calendar4416–4417
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat712–713
 - Shaka Samvat577–578
 - Kali Yuga3756–3757
Holocene calendar10656
Iranian calendar34–35
Islamic calendar35–36
Japanese calendarHakuchi 7
(白雉7年)
Javanese calendar547–548
Julian calendar656
DCLVI
Korean calendar2989
Minguo calendar1256 before ROC
民前1256年
Nanakshahi calendar−812
Seleucid era967/968 AG
Thai solar calendar1198–1199
Tibetan calendar阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
782 or 401 or −371
    — to —
阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
783 or 402 or −370
King Sigebert III of Austrasia (c. 630–656)

Events

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Europe

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Britain

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Arabian Empire

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Asia

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  • Empress Saimei of Japan builds a new palace at Asuka (Nara Prefecture), because her former residence caught fire. This construction is called the "Mad Canal" by the people of that day, wasting the labor of tens of thousand workers and a large amount of money.

Polynesia

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Religion

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Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ Nicolle 2009, p. 62.
  2. ^ Madelung 1998, p. 135 n..
  3. ^ Muir 1898, p. 250, Chapter Chapter XXXV, "Battle of the Camel".

Sources

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  • Muir, William (1898). The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall, from Original Sources (3rd ed.). London: Smith, Elder. p. 250.
  • Nicolle, David (2009). The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632–750. Bloomsbury USA. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-84603-273-8.
  • Madelung, Wilferd (1998). The Succession to Muhammad A Study of the Early Caliphate. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-64696-3.