648

This article is about the year 648. For the number, see 648 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	610s  620s  630s  – 640s –  650s  660s  670s
Years:	645 646 647 – 648 – 649 650 651

648 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

648 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	648 DCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1401
Armenian calendar	97 ԹՎ ՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	5398
Bengali calendar	55
Berber calendar	1598
Buddhist calendar	1192
Burmese calendar	10
Byzantine calendar	6156–6157
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3344 or 3284     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3345 or 3285
Coptic calendar	364–365
Discordian calendar	1814
Ethiopian calendar	640–641
Hebrew calendar	4408–4409
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	704–705
- Shaka Samvat	570–571
- Kali Yuga	3749–3750
Holocene calendar	10648
Iranian calendar	26–27
Islamic calendar	27–28
Japanese calendar	Taika 4 (大化４年)
Julian calendar	648 DCXLVIII
Korean calendar	2981
Minguo calendar	1264 before ROC 民前1264年
Seleucid era	959/960 AG
Thai solar calendar	1190–1191

Fang Xuanling (579–648)

Year 648 (DCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 648 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

• Emperor Constans II, to quiet the intense controversy caused by the Monothelete doctrine, issues an imperial edict forbidding the subject to be discussed. This edict, distributed by patriarch Paul II in Constans' name, is known as the Typos.

Europe

• King Sigebert II of Austrasia is advised by Remaclus to establish a double-monastery at Stavelot and Malmedy. As a missionary bishop he founds an abbey on the River Amblève (modern Belgium).

Britain

• King Cenwalh of Wessex returns from a 3-year exile in East Anglia to reclaim his kingdom. He gives 3,000 hides of land around Ashdown to his nephew, Cuthred, possibly sub-king of Berkshire (England).
• Cenwahl invites bishop Birinus to establish under his direction the Old Minster in Winchester. Together they have a small stone church built.

Asia

• Tang general Ashina She'er re-established Tang control of Karasahr and leads a military campaign against the Tarim Basin kingdom of Kucha in Xinjiang, a vassal of the Western Turkic Khaganate.

By topic

Literature

• The Book of Jin is compiled in China during the Tang Dynasty. Its chief editor is the chancellor Fang Xuanling, who dies in this year as well.

Religion

• Pope Theodore I excommunicates Paul II of Constantinople.

Births

• Kōbun, emperor of Japan (d. 672)
• Redbad, king of Frisia (d. 719)
• Tōchi, Japanese princess (d. 678)

Deaths

• Fang Xuanling, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 579)
• Ma Zhou, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 601)
• April 17 – Xiao, empress of the Sui Dynasty