Centuries:	6th century · 7th century · 8th century
Decades:	610s 620s 630s 640s 650s 660s 670s
Years:	637 638 639 640 641 642 643

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Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

640 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	640 DCXL
Ab urbe condita	1393
Armenian calendar	89 ԹՎ ՁԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-1204 – -1203
Bengali calendar	47
Berber calendar	1590
Buddhist calendar	1184
Burmese calendar	2
Byzantine calendar	6148 – 6149
Chinese calendar	己亥年十二月初三日 (3276/3336-12-3) — to — 庚子年十一月十三日 (3277/3337-11-13)
Coptic calendar	356 – 357
Ethiopian calendar	632 – 633
Hebrew calendar	4400 – 4401
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	695 – 696
- Shaka Samvat	562 – 563
- Kali Yuga	3741 – 3742
Holocene calendar	10640
Iranian calendar	18 – 19
Islamic calendar	19 – 20
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2973
Thai solar calendar	1183
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[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Europe

• Tulga succeeds his father Suinthila as king of the Visigoths.
• The French city of Lille is founded by Lyderic.
• At request of Porga of Croatia, one of the first known princes (Croatian: knez) of Dalmatian Croatia to Emperor Heraclius for Christian teachers, Pope John IV (640–642) sent Christian teachers and missionaries to the Croatian Provinces.

[edit] Africa

• July – The Battle of Heliopolis is fought between Arab Muslim armies and the Byzantine Empire.

[edit] Asia

• Emperor Taizong's campaign against Xiyu states, or the Western Regions in the Tarim Basin, commences in this year, as the Tang Dynasty Chinese commander Hou Junji captures Gaochang to solidify Chinese rule in Central Asia.

[edit] By topic

[edit] Religion

• May 28—Pope Severinus succeeds Pope Honorius I as the 71st pope.
• December 24—Pope John IV succeeds Pope Severinus as the 72nd pope.

[edit] Births

• Al-Akhtal, Arab poet
• Aldhelm, Bible translator
• Dungarth, King of Dumnonia
• Musa bin Nusair, Umayyad general and governor
• Saint Lambert, bishop and Christian saint
• St. Kilian, Apostle of Franconia
• Saint Tysilio, bishop and Christian saint
• Luo Binwang

[edit] Deaths

• 2 August—Pope Severinus
• 12 September—Sak K'uk', Queen Mother of Palenque
• Pippin of Landen, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
• Eadbald, king of Kent
• Chintila, Visigothic King of Hispania
• Dushun
• Li Xiaogong
• Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan