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AD 642: A monastic settlement is founded in Hampshire (England) which later becomes Winchester Cathedral.
 
AD 646: Xuanzang completes his book Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, which later becomes one of the primary sources for the study of medieval Central Asia and India.
 
AD 648: Emperor Constans II issues an imperial edict forbidding Monothelitism to be discussed, to quiet the intense controversy caused by the Monothelete doctrine. This edict, distributed by patriarch Paul II in Constans' name, is known as the Typos.
 
AD 650: The first Chinese paper money is issued, yet these banknotes will not become government-issued until the Song dynasty era Sichuan province issues them in the year 1024, with the central government of China following suit in the 12th century.
 
AD 652: King Rothari dies after a 16-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Rodoald as king of the Lombards.
 
AD 654: King Penda of Mercia defeats the East Anglians at Bulcamp near Blythburgh (Suffolk). King Anna of East Anglia and his son Jurmin are killed.
 
AD 659: A Japanese embassy is sent to the Chinese Empire, and received in an audience by Emperor Gao Zong. The Tang dynasty is determined in the next year to take administrative measures in regard to Japan. The envoys are detained.
 
AD 664: The Kingdom of Gwynedd is also devastated by the plague; King Cadafael Cadomedd dies and is succeeded by Cadwaladr, who reasserts himself in his kingdom by sending his son Ivor from Brittany to be regent.
 
AD 666: Turkish tribes proclaimed Ashina Nishufu as Khagan, demonstrating that Turkic state tradition and sovereign will remained alive even under Tang Chinese domination.
 
AD 670: Hōryū-ji, a Japanese Buddhist temple, burns to the ground after being hit by lightning; its reconstruction is immediately begun.
 
AD 671: Ashina Funian of the Göktürk royal clan rises against Tang rule in an attempt to restore Turkic independence. Though the rebellion fails, it foreshadows the rebirth of the Göktürk Khaganate a decade later.
 
AD 673: Burgundian nobles, under the leadership of bishop Leodegar and Adalrich, invite Childeric II to become king in Neustria and Burgundy. He invades Theuderic's kingdom and displaces his brother, becoming sole king of the Frankish Kingdom.
 
AD 674 - Khazar Turkish forces hold the Caucasian passes against Umayyad expansion, preventing Arab armies from advancing into the Pontic steppe and securing Turkish dominance north of the Caucasus.
 
AD 676: Across the steppes, Turkish clans begin to reorganize against Tang domination, while the Khazar Khaganate fortifies the Caucasian passes a prelude to the resurgence of Turkish power in the decades to come.
 
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