652

Year 652 (DCLII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 652 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.

652 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	652 DCLII
Ab urbe condita	1405
Armenian calendar	101 ԹՎ ՃԱ
Assyrian calendar	5402
Balinese saka calendar	573–574
Bengali calendar	58–59
Berber calendar	1602
Buddhist calendar	1196
Burmese calendar	14
Byzantine calendar	6160–6161
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3349 or 3142     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 3350 or 3143
Coptic calendar	368–369
Discordian calendar	1818
Ethiopian calendar	644–645
Hebrew calendar	4412–4413
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	708–709
- Shaka Samvat	573–574
- Kali Yuga	3752–3753
Holocene calendar	10652
Iranian calendar	30–31
Islamic calendar	31–32
Japanese calendar	Hakuchi 3 (白雉３年)
Javanese calendar	543–544
Julian calendar	652 DCLII
Korean calendar	2985
Minguo calendar	1260 before ROC 民前1260年
Nanakshahi calendar	−816
Seleucid era	963/964 AG
Thai solar calendar	1194–1195
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 778 or 397 or −375     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 779 or 398 or −374

The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an (China)

Events

By place

Europe

• King Rothari dies after a 16-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Rodoald as king of the Lombards.

Britain

• King Penda of Mercia invades Bernicia, and besieges King Oswiu at Bamburgh, in North East England.

Arab Empire

• Arab–Byzantine War: An Arab fleet under Abdullah ibn Sa'ad defeats the Byzantine fleet (500 ships) off the coast of Alexandria.^[1]
• Siege of Dongola: A Rashidun army (5,000 men) under Abdullah ibn Sa'ad besieges Dongola in the Kingdom of Makuria (modern Sudan).
• Uthman ibn Affan establishes a treaty (the Baqt) between the Christian Nubians and the Muslims in Egypt, that lasts for six centuries,^[2] including the tribute of 400 slaves annually.^[3]
• Abdel al Rahman ibn Awf, companion (sahabah) of Muhammad, frees 30,000 slaves at his death (approximate date).

Asia

• 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 prevails until the era of World War II.
• The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda is constructed in Chang'an (modern Xi'an), during the Tang dynasty (China). It is completed in the same year, during the reign of Emperor Gao Zong.

Births

• Chlothar III, king of Neustria and Burgundy (d. 673)
• Constantine IV, Byzantine emperor (d. 685)
• Li Hong, prince of the Tang dynasty (d. 675)

Deaths

• Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, uncle of Muhammad (approximate date)
• Abdel Rahman ibn Awf, companion of Muhammad (approximate date)
• Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, Arabic leader (b. 560)
• Emmeram, bishop of Regensburg (approximate date)
• Itta of Metz, widow of Pippin of Landen (b. 592)
• Li Tai, prince of the Tang dynasty (b. 618)
• Olympius, exarch of Ravenna
• Rothari, king of the Lombards