Year 651 (
DCLI
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The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, by the merger of the 32nd (Cornwall Light I ...
) was a
common year starting on Saturday
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(link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar. The denomination 651 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
Europe
* King Clovis II of Neustria and Burgundy
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marries Balthild, said to be an Anglo-Saxon
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aristocrat sold into slavery in Gaul. She has been owned by Clovis' mayor of the palace, Erchinoald, who gives her to him to garner royal favour (approximate date).
Britain
* King Oswiu of Bernicia declares war on his rival, King Oswine of Deira. Oswine refuses to engage him in battle, and retreats to Gilling
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( North Yorkshire). Oswine is betrayed by a friend, and murdered by Oswiu's soldiers.
* Œthelwald succeeds his uncle Oswine as king of Deira, and allies himself with Oswiu's enemy, King Penda of Mercia. Queen Eanflæd of Bernicia donates the estate of Gilling for the foundation of a monastery.
Persia
* King Yazdegerd III of Persia is murdered in a miller's hut near Merv by his followers, ending both Persian resistance to Arab conquest, and the Sassanid Empire
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.
Arabian Caliphate
* The Rashidun army under Abdullah ibn Aamir
Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir ibn Kurayz ( ar, أبو عبد الرحمن عبد الله بن عامر بن كريز) (626–678) was a Rashidun politician and general, serving as governor of Basra from 647 to 656 AD during t ...
invades Afghanistan, and captures the main forts in Khorasan
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* Greater Khorasan, a historical region which lies mostly in modern-day northern/northwestern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
* Khorasan Province, a pre-2004 province of Ira ...
(modern Iran). The Muslim
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Arabs occupy the cities of Balkh
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and Herat, which surrender peacefully.
* An embassy led by Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas arrives in the capital Chang'an via an oversea route. They are greeted by Emperor Gao Zong, who orders the establishment of the first Chinese mosque.
* The Quran is compiled by Caliph Uthman ibn Affan in its modern-day form. The text becomes the model from which copies are made and promulgated throughout the urban centers of the Arab world.
By topic
Religion
* The Hôtel-Dieu de Paris is founded by bishop Landry Landry may refer to:
People
* Landry (surname), of French origin
* Landry Jones (born 1989), American football player
* Landry Fields (born 1988), American basketball executive
* Landry Shamet (born 1997), American basketball player
Places
* Lan ...
(Landericus). It becomes the first major hospital
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in Paris.
Births
Deaths
*
August 20 –
Oswine, king of
Deira (
England)
*
August 31 –
Aidan
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, Irish-born bishop of
Lindisfarne
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*
Braulio Braulio is a given name.
*Braulio Estima, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and mixed martial artist
*Braulio García, a Spanish singer-songwriter who is often credited as "Braulio".
*Braulio Guerra, Mexican politician
*Braulio Mari, a Spanish sin ...
,
bishop of Zaragoza
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(b.
590
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)
*
Dayi Daoxin,
Chán
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Buddhist
patriarch (b.
580
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)
*
Grasulf II Grasulf II, Grasulf I was merely the father of Gisulf I, the first duke of Friuli, and thus grandfather of Grasulf II. son of Duke Gisulf I, was the Duke of Friuli after the assassination of his nephews, Tasso and Kakko, in Oderzo in 616 or 617. H ...
, duke of
Friuli (approximate date)
*
Radoald, duke of
Benevento
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(
Italy)
*
Yazdegard III, king of the
Sassanid Empire
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*
Apranik, Sasanian female military commander.
References
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