659

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century 7th century 8th century
Decades:	630s 640s 650s 660s 670s
Years:	656 657 658 659 660 661 662

659 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	659 DCLIX
Ab urbe condita	1412
Armenian calendar	108 ԹՎ ՃԸ
Assyrian calendar	5409
Balinese saka calendar	580–581
Bengali calendar	66
Berber calendar	1609
Buddhist calendar	1203
Burmese calendar	21
Byzantine calendar	6167–6168
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3356 or 3149     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 3357 or 3150
Coptic calendar	375–376
Discordian calendar	1825
Ethiopian calendar	651–652
Hebrew calendar	4419–4420
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	715–716
- Shaka Samvat	580–581
- Kali Yuga	3759–3760
Holocene calendar	10659
Iranian calendar	37–38
Islamic calendar	38–39
Japanese calendar	Hakuchi 10 (白雉１０年)
Javanese calendar	550–551
Julian calendar	659 DCLIX
Korean calendar	2992
Minguo calendar	1253 before ROC 民前1253年
Nanakshahi calendar	−809
Seleucid era	970/971 AG
Thai solar calendar	1201–1202
Tibetan calendar	阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 785 or 404 or −368     — to — 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 786 or 405 or −367

Year 659 (DCLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 659 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Europe

• Ealdormen in Mercia rebel against Northumbrian rule and proclaim Wulfhere king.

Asia

• Japanese envoys are sent on a mission to Tang. They have an audience of the Tang Emperor. However, as Tang's Government determines next year to take administrative measures in regard to the lands east of the sea, they are detained within Tang.

Births

• Fujiwara no Fuhito
• He Zhizhang
• Ali ibn Husayn, great grandson of Muhammad and Shī‘ah Imām

Deaths

• March 17—Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, abbess
• Han Yuan
• Liu Shi, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
• Zhangsun Wuji, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty