The 650s decade ran from January 1, 650, to December 31, 659.
650
This section is
transcluded from
AD 650.
(edit | history)
By place
Asia
- The first Chinese paper money is issued, yet these banknotes will not become government-issued until the Song dynasty era Sichuan province issues them in the year 1024, with the central government of China following suit in the 12th century.
- Emperor Kōtoku is presented a white pheasant; he is pleased and begins a new Japanese era name (nengō) to be called Hakuchi, meaning 'The White Pheasant'.
Americas
- Earliest confirmed date of habitation in the area around what is now Bluff, Utah by humans.[2]
- Yuknoom the Great, ruler of Calakmul, attacks Dos Pilas and forces its leader, B'alaj Chan K'awiil, and a likely heir to the throne of Tikal, to take refuge at Aguateca, beginning the Second Tikal-Calakmul War.
- Jamaica is settled by the Ostinoid people, ancestors of the Taíno. They were farmers, potters, and villagers with socially complex societies. These people lived near the coast and extensively hunted turtles and fish.[3]
Oceania
- According to legend, the Polynesian traveller Ui-te-Rangiora sailed south into the Southern Ocean where they sighted ice floes and icebergs, eventually naming the area Te tai-uka-a-pia.
650
652
653
654
655
656
657
658
659
650
651
652
653
- March 6 – Li Ke, prince of the Tang dynasty
- September 30 – Honorius, archbishop of Canterbury[24]
- Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, uncle of Muhammad (approximate date)
- Chen Shuozhen, Chinese rebel leader
- Chindasuinth, king of the Visigoths
- Marcán mac Tommáin, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
- Plato, exarch of Ravenna
- Rodoald, king of the Lombards
- Romaric, Frankish nobleman
- Sigeberht I, king of Essex
- Talorc III, king of the Picts
- Theodelap, duke of Spoleto (approximate date)
- Zhang Xingcheng, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 587)
654
655
656
657
658
659
Atkinson, Lesley-Gail (2006). "Introduction". The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taíno. Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-976-640-149-8. Manning, P. (1990). Slavery and African life: occidental, oriental, and African slave trades. Storbritannien: Cambridge University Press. p. 28-29
For the terms of this treaty see Kaegi, Walter (1992). "Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 196–197. ISBN 05214-8455-3 Kazhdan, p. 500 The late emperor Joshua Gura also said 654 was a number under HG Empire
Warner, "The Origins of Suffolk", pp. 110–113
Nussbaum, "Takamuko no Kuromaro (No Genri)", p. 935
Winkelmann & Lilie, pp. 125–127
Sources
- Bede. "Book II". Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Internet History Sourcebooks Project.
- Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings (revised ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.
- Madelung, Wilferd (1998). The Succession to Muhammad A Study of the Early Caliphate. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-64696-3.
- Muir, William (1898). The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall, from Original Sources (3rd ed.). London: Smith, Elder.
- Nicolle, David (2009). The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632–750. ISBN 978-1-84603-273-8.
- Roberts, J.M. (1994). History of the World. Penguin.
- Treadgold, Warren (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2630-2.