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• Arab–Byzantine War: Caliph Muawiyah I launches a series of attacks against Byzantine holdings in Africa, Sicily and the East.{{sfn|Treadgold|1997|pp=318–324}}

• The Lombards, under King Grimoald I, destroy Oderzo (Northern Italy). Much of its population flees to the nearby city of Heraclea.

• King Javanshir of Caucasian Albania (modern Azerbaijan) revolts against the Muslim-Arabs, but is defeated (approximate date).

• Wighard, archbishop of Canterbury, dies of the bubonic plague while returning from his consecration in Rome.{{sfn|Hindley|2006|p=47}}
• The Abbey of St. Vaast in Arras (France) is founded.

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

• January 23 – Ildefonsus, bishop of Toledo
• Daoxuan, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 596)
• Severus Sebokht, Syrian scholar and bishop
• Su Dingfang, general of the Tang dynasty (b. 591)
• Wighard, archbishop of Canterbury (approximate date)

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• {{cite book |last=Hindley |first=Geoffrey |date=2006 |title=A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The Beginnings of the English Nation |publisher=Carroll & Graf |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7867-1738-5}}
• {{cite book |last=Treadgold |first=Warren |author-link=Warren Treadgold |date=1997 |title=A History of the Byzantine State and Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=0-8047-2630-2}}

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