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Calendar year

This article is about the year 667.     For other uses, see [667 (disambiguation)](/source/667_(disambiguation)).

Calendar year

Years Millennium 1st millennium Centuries 6th century 7th century 8th century Decades 640s 650s 660s 670s 680s Years 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 v t e

667 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Categories Births Deaths Establishments v t e

667 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 667 DCLXVII Ab urbe condita 1420 Armenian calendar 116 ԹՎ ՃԺԶ Assyrian calendar 5417 Balinese saka calendar 588–589 Bengali calendar 73–74 Berber calendar 1617 Buddhist calendar 1211 Burmese calendar 29 Byzantine calendar 6175–6176 Chinese calendar 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3364 or 3157 — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3365 or 3158 Coptic calendar 383–384 Discordian calendar 1833 Ethiopian calendar 659–660 Hebrew calendar 4427–4428 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 723–724 - Shaka Samvat 588–589 - Kali Yuga 3767–3768 Holocene calendar 10667 Iranian calendar 45–46 Islamic calendar 46–47 Japanese calendar Hakuchi 18 (白雉１８年) Javanese calendar 558–559 Julian calendar 667 DCLXVII Korean calendar 3000 Minguo calendar 1245 before ROC 民前1245年 Nanakshahi calendar −801 Seleucid era 978/979 AG Thai solar calendar 1209–1210 Tibetan calendar མེ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Tiger) 793 or 412 or −360 — to — མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 794 or 413 or −359

[Ildefonsus of Toledo](/source/Ildefonsus_of_Toledo) by [El Greco](/source/El_Greco) (1600–1604)

Year **667** (**[DCLXVII](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [common year starting on Friday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Friday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/Julian_calendar). The denomination 667 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

### By place

#### Byzantine Empire

- [Arab–Byzantine War](/source/Arab%E2%80%93Byzantine_wars#Attacks_against_Byzantine_holdings_in_Africa,_Sicily_and_the_East): Caliph [Muawiyah I](/source/Muawiyah_I) launches a series of attacks against [Byzantine](/source/Byzantine_Empire) holdings in [Africa](/source/Exarchate_of_Africa), [Sicily](/source/Sicily) and the East.[1]

#### Europe

- The [Lombards](/source/Lombards), under King [Grimoald I](/source/Grimoald_I_of_Benevento), destroy [Oderzo](/source/Oderzo) ([Northern Italy](/source/Northern_Italy)). Much of its population flees to the nearby city of [Heraclea](/source/Eraclea).

#### Arabian Empire

- King [Javanshir](/source/Javanshir) of [Caucasian Albania](/source/Caucasian_Albania) (modern [Azerbaijan](/source/Azerbaijan)) revolts against the [Muslim-Arabs](/source/Umayyad_Caliphate), but is defeated (approximate date).

### By topic

#### Religion

- [Wighard](/source/Wighard), archbishop of [Canterbury](/source/Diocese_of_Canterbury), dies of the [bubonic plague](/source/Bubonic_plague) while returning from his [consecration](/source/Consecration) in [Rome](/source/Rome).[2]

- The [Abbey of St. Vaast](/source/Abbey_of_St._Vaast) in [Arras](/source/Arras) ([France](/source/France)) is founded.

## Births

- [Hisham ibn Urwah](/source/Hisham_ibn_Urwah), prominent narrator of hadith and scholar

- [Qasim ibn Hasan](/source/Qasim_ibn_Hasan), son of [Hassan ibn Ali](/source/Hassan_ibn_Ali)

## Deaths

- [January 23](/source/January_23) – [Ildefonsus](/source/Ildefonsus), [bishop of Toledo](/source/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Toledo)

- [Daoxuan](/source/Daoxuan), Chinese [Buddhist](/source/Chinese_Buddhism) monk (b. [596](/source/596))

- [Severus Sebokht](/source/Severus_Sebokht), Syrian scholar and [bishop](/source/Bishop)

- [Su Dingfang](/source/Su_Dingfang), general of the [Tang dynasty](/source/Tang_dynasty) (b. [591](/source/591))

- [Wighard](/source/Wighard), [archbishop of Canterbury](/source/Archbishop_of_Canterbury) (approximate date)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETreadgold1997318–324_1-0)** [Treadgold 1997](#CITEREFTreadgold1997), pp. 318–324.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHindley200647_2-0)** [Hindley 2006](#CITEREFHindley2006), p. 47.

### Sources

- Hindley, Geoffrey (2006). *A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The Beginnings of the English Nation*. New York: Carroll & Graf. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-7867-1738-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7867-1738-5).

- [Treadgold, Warren](/source/Warren_Treadgold) (1997). [*A History of the Byzantine State and Society*](https://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC). Stanford University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-8047-2630-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8047-2630-2).

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