632

Year 632 (DCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 632 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:	6th century 7th century 8th century
Decades:	610s 620s 630s 640s 650s
Years:	629 630 631 632 633 634 635

632 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	632 DCXXXII
Ab urbe condita	1385
Armenian calendar	81 ԹՎ ՁԱ
Assyrian calendar	5382
Balinese saka calendar	553–554
Bengali calendar	39
Berber calendar	1582
Buddhist calendar	1176
Burmese calendar	−6
Byzantine calendar	6140–6141
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3329 or 3122     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3330 or 3123
Coptic calendar	348–349
Discordian calendar	1798
Ethiopian calendar	624–625
Hebrew calendar	4392–4393
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	688–689
- Shaka Samvat	553–554
- Kali Yuga	3732–3733
Holocene calendar	10632
Iranian calendar	10–11
Islamic calendar	10–11
Japanese calendar	N/A
Javanese calendar	522–523
Julian calendar	632 DCXXXII
Korean calendar	2965
Minguo calendar	1280 before ROC 民前1280年
Nanakshahi calendar	−836
Seleucid era	943/944 AG
Thai solar calendar	1174–1175
Tibetan calendar	阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 758 or 377 or −395     — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 759 or 378 or −394

King Yazdegerd III of Persia (632–651)

Events

By place

Arabia

• March 18 (approximate) – Muhammad makes his final sermon to the Muslims. It is believed by Shia to be the appointment of Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor. The Imamah (Shia doctrine) of Ali Ibn Abi Talib, for the religious, spiritual and political leadership of the Ummah, begins.
• June 8 – Muhammad dies at Medina at the age of 62, after an illness and fever.
• June – Abu Bakr (born Abdallah ibn Uthman ibn Amir, better known by his Islamic laqab Al-Siddiq) becomes the Caliph.
• June – The first caliph, Abu Bakr, sends an expedition to Balqa, Byzantine Empire, led by Usama ibn Zayd. This expedition is sent based on Muhammad's decision before his death.^[1]
• Ridda Wars: Abu Bakr launches a series of military campaigns against rebel Arabian tribes, to re-establish the power of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and to secure Muhammad's legacy.
• September – Battle of Buzakha: An Islamic column (6,000 men) under Khalid ibn al-Walid defeats the Apostate rebels under Tulayha, near Ha'il (Saudi Arabia).
• December – Battle of Aqraba: The Muslim forces of Abu Bakr defeat the Apostate rebels (40,000 men) under Musaylimah, on the plain of Aqraba.

Europe

• April 8 – King Charibert II is assassinated at Blaye (Gironde), (possibly on orders of his half-brother Dagobert I), along with his infant son. Dagobert I claims Aquitaine and Gascony, becoming the most powerful Merovingian king in the West.
• Part of Samo's rebellion, Alciocus leads 9,000 Bulgars from Pannonia to refuge with Dagobert (who massacres them), then, with 700 survivors, settles with the Wends, under the protection of Walluc.
• Kubrat, ruler of the Dulo clan,^[2] takes power from the Pannonian Avars and establishes Old Great Bulgaria in the area of Black Cumania. Kubrat's rule stretches from Dacia to Poltava.

Persia

• June 16 – Yazdegerd III, age 8, ascends to the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sassanid Dynasty (modern Iran).

Asia

• January 27 – An annular eclipse of the sun occurs.^[3]
• Seondeok is crowned queen of Silla (Korea).^[4]

Armenia

• The 632 Armenia earthquake affects the region of the Armenian Highlands.^[5]

By topic

Religion

• March 6 (Friday, 9 Zulhijja, 10 AH) – The Farewell Sermon (Khuṭbatu l-Wadāʿ) is delivered by Muhammad, Islamic prophet, in the Uranah valley of Mount Arafat, to the Muslims who have accompanied him for the Hajj (pilgrimage).
• June 8 – Muhammad dies in Medina, at the age of 62, and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph (vicegerent of the messenger of God). He establishes the Rashidun Caliphate until 661.
• Xuanzang, Chinese traveler, writes about two huge statues of Buddha carved out of a mountainside in the Bamiyan Valley (Afghanistan).

Births

• Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, Arab general (d. 702)
• Vindicianus, bishop of Cambrai (approximate date)

Deaths

• January 27 – Ibrahim, son of Muhammad
• January 31 – Máedóc, bishop of Ferns
• April 8 – Charibert II, king of Aquitaine
• June 8 – Muhammad, Islamic Prophet (b. 570)
• August 11 – Rusticula (b. c. 556), abbess of Arles
• August 28 – Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad
• October 12 or 633 – Edwin of Northumbria, king of Deira and Bernicia
• October 29 – Saint Colman mac Duagh, Irish abbot and bishop
• Abu Dujana, companion of Muhammad
• Chilperic, son of Charibert II
• Abdullah ibn Suhayl (b. 594) (martyred)
• Abu Hudhayfa ibn Utba (b. 581) (martyred)
• Salim Mawla Abu Hudhayfa (b. c. 594–596) (martyred)
• Zayd ibn al-Khattab (b. before 584) (martyred)
• Musaylimah, Arabian prophet

References

1. Razwy, Sayyid Ali Ashgar (November 10, 2013). "A Restatement of History of Islam and Muslim: Usama's Expedition". al-islam.org. Retrieved April 20, 2023.
2. Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans
3. Espenak, F. "NASA - Solar Eclipses of History". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
4. "List of Rulers of Korea". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
5. Guidoboni, Emanuela; Traina, Giusto (1995). "A new catalogue of earthquakes in the historical Armenian area from antiquity to the 12th century". Annals of Geophysics. 38 (1). doi:10.4401/ag-4134.