646
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| Centuries: | 6th century · 7th century · 8th century |
| Decades: | 610s 620s 630s 640s 650s 660s 670s |
| Years: | 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 |
| 646 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 646 DCXLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1399 |
| Armenian calendar | 95 ԹՎ ՂԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1198 – -1197 |
| Berber calendar | 1596 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1190 |
| Burmese calendar | 8 |
| Chinese calendar | 3282/3342-12-9 (乙巳年十二月初九日) — to —
3283/3343-11-19(丙午年十一月十九日) |
| Coptic calendar | 362 – 363 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 638 – 639 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4406 – 4407 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 701 – 702 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 568 – 569 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3747 – 3748 |
| Holocene calendar | 10646 |
| Iranian calendar | 24 – 25 |
| Islamic calendar | 25 – 26 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2979 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1189 |
[edit] Events
- An edict of the Taika Reforms is promulgated in Japan.
- Alexandria is recaptured by the Arabs after a Byzantine attempt to retake Egypt fails, ending nearly 10 centuries of Greaco-Roman civilization in Egypt.
- The Xueyantuo state is destroyed by the Chinese Tang Dynasty, ending Emperor Taizong's campaign against Xueyantuo.
- Japanese Emperor Kōtoku 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.
[edit] Births
- Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
- Li Sujie
- Sun Guoting
[edit] Deaths
- Sulpitius the Pious, Bishop of Bourges
- Liu Ji, Chinese chancellor and poet of the Tang Dynasty
- Zhang Liang

