640

Year 640 (DCXL) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 640 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:
Decades:
Years:
640 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar640
DCXL
Ab urbe condita1393
Armenian calendar89
ԹՎ ՁԹ
Assyrian calendar5390
Balinese saka calendar561–562
Bengali calendar47
Berber calendar1590
Buddhist calendar1184
Burmese calendar2
Byzantine calendar6148–6149
Chinese calendar己亥(Earth Pig)
3336 or 3276
     to 
庚子年 (Metal Rat)
3337 or 3277
Coptic calendar356–357
Discordian calendar1806
Ethiopian calendar632–633
Hebrew calendar4400–4401
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat696–697
 - Shaka Samvat561–562
 - Kali Yuga3740–3741
Holocene calendar10640
Iranian calendar18–19
Islamic calendar19–20
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar530–531
Julian calendar640
DCXL
Korean calendar2973
Minguo calendar1272 before ROC
民前1272年
Nanakshahi calendar−828
Seleucid era951/952 AG
Thai solar calendar1182–1183
Tibetan calendar阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
766 or 385 or −387
     to 
阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
767 or 386 or −386

Events

Europe

Britain

Africa

Asia

Religion

Economy

  • A surge in atmospheric lead in ice core drilled in the Colle Gnifetti Glacier in the Swiss Alps signals an increase in silver mining because of economic recovery, after natural disasters in 530s and 540s.[6]

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Deaths

References

  1. Butler, Alfred, "The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty years of Roman Dominion", p. 222
  2. Al Farooq, Umar by Muhammad Husayn Haykal, chapter nr. 21
  3. "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) pp24
  4. "What happened to the Great Library at Alexandria?". Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  5. Hill, John E. (2003). "The Kingdom of Da Quin". The Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu (2nd ed.). Retrieved 2008-11-30
  6. Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’. sciencemag.org Nov. 15, 2018
  7. "The Mystery of the Red Queen of Palenque". Uncovered History. December 22, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
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