652

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Events

By Place

Europe

* Rodoald succeeds his father Rothari as king of the Lombards.

Africa

* Arabs invade Nubia for the second time, laying siege to the city of Dunqulah and destroying its cathedral (previous invasion was in 642).

Asia

* A new palace of Japan is moved to Naniwa.
* 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 is alive until the era of WWII.
* Khazaria becomes an independent state (approximate date).
* Construction of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Chang'an (modern Xi'an), Tang Dynasty China, is completed in this year during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang.
* 'Abd al Rahman bin 'Awf frees 30,000 slaves at his death.

Births

* Clotaire III, king of the Franks
* Constantine IV, Byzantine emperor
* Li Hong

Deaths

* Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, uncle of Muhammad, progenitor of the Abbasids
* Itta, widow of Pippin of Landen, monastic foundress
* Rothari, king of the Lombards
* Li Tai