- 660
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By Place
Europe
* Slavic principality of
Carantania is first mentioned in historical sources.
*Childeric II is proclaimed king ofAustrasia .
* Swithelm succeeds Sigeberht II as king of Essex.
* Felix assumes the titles of Duke of Vasconia and Aquitaine.Asia
*
Baekje in southwestern Korea is overthrown by the alliance of the Tang andSilla , led by GeneralSu Dingfang , GeneralKim Yu-shin and Kim Beopmin. The Japanese envoys detained in Tang are paroled.
*Empress Saimei of Japan makes an order to dispatch a force to the Korean Peninsula to save Baekje.
*Emperor Gaozong of Tang suffers a stroke; his wifeWu starts to rule.
* Naka no Ōe no Ōji of Japan for the first time makes aclepsydra at Asuka, by which he causes the people to know the hours.Births
*
Yamanoue no Okura , Japanese poet (d.733 )Deaths
* General
Ge-Baek of Baekje
*Xin Maojiang
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