651

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| align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;" | }}} }}} }}} }}} }}} }}} }}} |- style="background-color:#f3f3f3" | align="right" | Centuries: | align="center" | 6th century · 7th century · 8th century |- | align="right" | Decades: | align="center" | 620s 630s 640s 650s 660s 670s 680s |- style="background-color:#f3f3f3" | align="right" | Years: | align="center" | 648 649 650 651 652 653 654

Events

By Place

Europe

Clovis II king of Neustria and Burgundy, marries the future Saint Bathilde

Africa

The bakt between Egypt and Makuria is signed

Asia

Yazdegard III is killed in Merv by his followers, ending both Persian resistance to Arab conquest, and the Sassanid dynasty.
Arabs invade Afghanistan and capture Herat.

Births

Li Ssu-Hsun, Chinese painter (died 716)

Deaths

August 31 - Saint Aidan, missionary and first bishop of Lindisfarne
Yazdegard III, last king of the Sassanids (killed by followers)

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