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Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ Oswiu of Northumbria annexes Mercia

Asia

★ Battle of Bassorah (also known as Battle of the Camel) between Ali and Aisha, part of the first civil war in Islam; taken place in modern-day Basra, Iraq.

By Topic

Religion

★ Ali succeeds Uthman as Caliph

★ When a Chinese prince (later to be Emperor Zhongzong of Tang) was made crown prince in this year, his lavish palatial mansion in Chang'an was converted into a Daoist abbey.

Births

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Deaths

★ Uthman ibn Affan, Caliph, assassinated

★ Peada, king of Mercia, assassinated