663

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	630s  640s  650s  – 660s –  670s  680s  690s
Years:	660 661 662 – 663 – 664 665 666

663 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

663 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	663 DCLXIII
Ab urbe condita	1416
Armenian calendar	112 ԹՎ ՃԺԲ
Assyrian calendar	5413
Bengali calendar	70
Berber calendar	1613
Buddhist calendar	1207
Burmese calendar	25
Byzantine calendar	6171–6172
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3359 or 3299     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3360 or 3300
Coptic calendar	379–380
Discordian calendar	1829
Ethiopian calendar	655–656
Hebrew calendar	4423–4424
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	719–720
- Shaka Samvat	585–586
- Kali Yuga	3764–3765
Holocene calendar	10663
Iranian calendar	41–42
Islamic calendar	42–43
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	663 DCLXIII
Korean calendar	2996
Minguo calendar	1249 before ROC 民前1249年
Seleucid era	974/975 AG
Thai solar calendar	1205–1206

"Danfeng Gate" of the Daming Palace (China)

Year 663 (DCLXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 663 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 launches an assault against the Duchy of Benevento (Southern Italy). Taking advantage of the fact that Lombard king Grimoald I is engaged against Frankish forces from Neustria, Constans disembarks at Taranto and besieges Lucera and Benevento.
• Constans II visits Rome for twelve days—the only emperor to set foot in Rome for two centuries—and is received with great honor by pope Vitalian. Constans gives the order to strip buildings, including the Pantheon, of their ornaments to be carried back to Constantinople.
• Constans II moves the imperial court from Constantinople to Syracuse. He tries to stop the Arab conquest of Sicily and restores Rome as seat of the Byzantine Empire. Constans strips sacred altar vessels from churches all over Rome.
• May 8 – Battle of Forino: The Byzantine army led by Constans II is defeated by the Lombards under Romuald I. He seizes Taranto and Brindisi, receiving military aid from the Bulgar Alcek horde who are settled in the area of Ravenna.

Britain

• King Oswiu of Northumbria invades Pictland (modern Scotland). He establishes overlordship of, at least, the Southern Pictish sub-kingdoms of Fortriu and Fib (and possibly Circinn).
• A brief outbreak of plague hits Britain (approximate date).

Asia

• June 5 – In China, the Daming Palace becomes the government seat and royal residence of emperor Gao Zong of the Tang Dynasty.
• Battle of Baekgang: Korean Baekje forces and their Japanese allies are defeated in a naval battle by a joint Silla–Tang coalition.

By topic

Religion

• Wine, bishop of Winchester, moves the episcopal see north again to Dorchester.^[1]

Births

• Nasr ibn Sayyar, Arab general (d. 748)
• Ōtsu, Japanese prince and poet (d. 686)
• Song Jing, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 737)
• Yamanobe, Japanese princess (approximate date)
• Zhang Yue, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 730)

Deaths

• Ago, duke of Friuli (approximate date)
• Cunibert, bishop of Cologne (approximate date)
• Gartnait IV, king of the Picts (approximate date)
• Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin, king of Connacht (Ireland)
• Gwisil Boksin, Korean general of Baekje (Korea)

References

1. Fryde, et al. "Handbook of British Chronology", p. 223