654

This article is about the year 654. For the number, see 654 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	620s  630s  640s  – 650s –  660s  670s  680s
Years:	651 652 653 – 654 – 655 656 657

654 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

654 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	654 DCLIV
Ab urbe condita	1407
Armenian calendar	103 ԹՎ ՃԳ
Assyrian calendar	5404
Bengali calendar	61
Berber calendar	1604
Buddhist calendar	1198
Burmese calendar	16
Byzantine calendar	6162–6163
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3350 or 3290     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3351 or 3291
Coptic calendar	370–371
Discordian calendar	1820
Ethiopian calendar	646–647
Hebrew calendar	4414–4415
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	710–711
- Shaka Samvat	576–577
- Kali Yuga	3755–3756
Holocene calendar	10654
Iranian calendar	32–33
Islamic calendar	33–34
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	654 DCLIV
Korean calendar	2987
Minguo calendar	1258 before ROC 民前1258年
Seleucid era	965/966 AG
Thai solar calendar	1196–1197

File:Pope Eugene I.jpg

Pope Eugene I (654–657)

Year 654 (DCLIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 654 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 appoints his son Constantine IV, age 2, co-emperor (Augustus). He is too young to rule as monarch of the Byzantine Empire, and his title remains a given name.

Europe

• King Recceswinth at Toledo draws up the Liber Judiciorum, a Visigothic code based on Roman law that establishes equality between Goths and Hispano-Romans without regard to racial or cultural differences.

Britain

• King Penda of Mercia defeats the East Anglians at Bulcamp near Blythburgh (Suffolk). King Anna of East Anglia and his son Jurmin are killed.
• Æthelhere succeeds his brother Anna as king of East Anglia and accepts Mercian overlordship (approximate date).

Arabian Empire

• Muawiyah, governor of Syria, stations a large garrison on Cyprus. He conquers the Greek island of Kos in the Dodecanese.
• Arab invaders cross the Oxus River in what later will be Uzbekistan. Nomadic Turkic tribes continue to control Central Asia.

Asia

• November 24 – Emperor Kōtoku dies after a 9-year reign, Kōgyoku (his elder sister) is restored on the throne under the name Saimei.
• Takamuko no Kuromaro, Japanese diplomat, is sent to the Tang Dynasty again but dies upon his arrival in Chang'an.
• Nakatomi no Kamatari, inner minister (naidaijin) of Japan, is granted the Shikwan (the Purple Cap).

By topic

Religion

• August 10 – The exiled Pope Martin I is deposed and succeeded by Eugene I as the 75th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. On September 17 Martin is taken to Constantinople and publicly humiliated for having condemned the Byzantine emperor Constans II in 649.
• Philibert, Frankish abbot, receives a gift from king Clovis II of Neustria and founds Jumièges Abbey in Normandy.

Births

• Takechi, Japanese prince (approximate date)
• Theuderic III, king of the Franks (d. 691)

Deaths

• Anna, king of East Anglia (approximate date)
• Conall Cóel, high king of Ireland
• Dúnchad mac Conaing, king of Dál Riata (modern Scotland)
• January 16 – Gao Jifu, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 596)
• Jurmin, Anglo-Saxon prince (approximate date)
• November 24 – Kōtoku, emperor of Japan (b. 596)
• June 1 – Pyrrhus, patriarch of Constantinople
• Takamuko no Kuromaro, Japanese diplomat