643

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Events

By Place

Europe

* Rothari, King of the Lombards, issues the Lombard law code.

Africa

* Arab armies win their first North African victory in Tripoli.

Asia

* Pirooz, the son of the last Sassanid king of Persia, flees to Tang Dynasty China.
* A Chinese Tang ambassador is sent to the North Indian Empire.
* When the Chinese prefectural government officials travel to the Tang Dynasty's capital of Chang'an in this year to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts, Emperor Taizong of Tang discovers that many have no proper quarters to rest in, and are renting rooms with merchants. Therefore, Emperor Taizong orders the government agencies in charge of municipal construction to build every visiting official his own private mansion in the capital.

Births

* Fazang
* Li Zhong

Deaths

* April 26 — Saint Richarius, French evangelist
* April 29 — Hou Junji, Chinese general and Chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
*Wei Zheng, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (born 580)