__NOTOC__ Year 667 ( DCLXVII) was a

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(link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 667 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

* Arab–Byzantine War: Caliph

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launches a series of attacks against Byzantine holdings in Africa, Sicily and the East.

Europe

* The Lombards, under King Grimoald I, destroy Oderzo (

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). Much of its population flees to the nearby city of Heraclea.

Arabian Empire

* King Javanshir of

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(modern Azerbaijan) revolts against the Muslim-Arabs, but is defeated (approximate date).

By topic

Religion

* Wighard, archbishop of Canterbury, dies of the

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while returning from his

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in Rome. * The

Abbey of St. Vaast The Abbey of St Vaast (french: Abbaye de Saint-Vaast) was a Benedictine monastery situated in Arras, ''département'' of Pas-de-Calais, France. History The abbey was founded in 667. Saint Vedast, or Vaast (c. 453–540) was the first Bisho ...

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( France) is founded.

Births

* Hisham ibn Urwah, prominent narrator of hadith and scholar * Qasim ibn Hasan, son of Hassan ibn Ali

Deaths

* January 23 – Ildefonsus,

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* Daoxuan, Chinese Buddhist monk (b.

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) * Severus Sebokht, Syrian scholar and bishop * Su Dingfang, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 591) * Wighard,

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(approximate date)

References

Sources

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