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In the year 646
Communication
The final destruction of the Library at Alexandria probably takes place this year. A famous story, perhaps true, says that when the Muslim general 'Amr ibn-al-'As captures the city he asks the Caliph what to do with the Library. He is informed that if the books agree with the Koran they are superfluous, but if they disagree they are blasphemous and should be destroyed, which is what the general does. See also 391 Communication.
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This article is about the year 646. For the number, see 646 (number). For other uses, see 646 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5396 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1198–-1197 |
| Bengali calendar | 53 |
| Berber calendar | 1596 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1190 |
| Burmese calendar | 8 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6154–6155 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十二月初九日 (3282/3342-12-9) — to —
丙午年十一月十九日(3283/3343-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 362–363 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 638–639 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4406–4407 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 702–703 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 568–569 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3747–3748 |
| Holocene calendar | 10646 |
| Iranian calendar | 24–25 |
| Islamic calendar | 25–26 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2979 |
| Minguo calendar | 1266 before ROC 民前1266年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1189 |
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Year 646 (DCXLVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 646 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.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Alexandria is recaptured by the Arabs after a Byzantine attempt to retake Egypt fails, ending nearly 1,000 year of Greaco-Roman civilization in Egypt.
China
- The Xueyantuo state is destroyed by the Chinese Tang Dynasty, ending Emperor Taizong's campaign against Xueyantuo.
Japan
- An edict of the Taika Reforms is promulgated in Japan.
- 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.
Births
Deaths
- Sulpitius the Pious, Bishop of Bourges
- Liu Ji, Chinese chancellor and poet of the Tang Dynasty
- Zhang Liang
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