Editing 648

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[[File:Fang Xuanling.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|[[Fang Xuanling]] (579–648)]]
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Year '''648''' ('''[[Roman numerals|DCXLVIII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. The denomination 648 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 ==
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=== By place ===

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* 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 of Constantinople|Paul II]] in Constans' name, is known as the ''[[Typos of Constans|Typos]]''.

==== Europe ====
* King [[Sigebert III]] of [[Austrasia]] is advised by [[Remaclus]] to establish a [[Princely Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy|double-monastery]], at [[Stavelot]] and [[Malmedy]]. As a missionary [[bishop]], he founds an [[abbey]] on the [[Amblève (river)|River Amblève]] (modern Belgium).

==== Britain ====
* King [[Cenwalh of Wessex]] returns from a 3-year exile in [[East Anglia]], to reclaim his kingdom. He gives 3,000 [[Hide (unit)|hide]]s of land around [[Berkshire Downs|Ashdown]] to his nephew [[Cuthred]], possibly sub-king of [[Berkshire]] (England). 
* Cenwahl invites bishop [[Birinus]] to establish under his direction the [[Old Minster, Winchester|Old Minster]] in [[Diocese of Winchester|Winchester]]. Together they have a small stone church built.{{sfn|Kirby|2000|p=45}}

==== Asia ====
* [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] general Ashina She'er re-establishes [[Tang campaigns against Karasahr|Tang control of Karasahr]], and leads a [[Tang campaign against Kucha|military campaign]] against the [[Tarim Basin]] kingdom of [[Kucha]] in [[Xinjiang]], a vassal of the [[Western Turkic Khaganate]].

==== Americas ====
* In an early skirmish in the run up to the [[Second Tikal–Calakmul War]], [[Bʼalaj Chan Kʼawiil]] scores a military victory, apparently over his half-brother, who had galled him by using the same [[royal emblem]] (or [[emblem glyph]]) as he did.
* [[Dos Pilas]] breaks away from [[Tikal]] and becomes a vassal state of [[Calakmul]].

=== By topic ===

==== Literature ====
* The ''[[Book of Jin]]'' is compiled in China during the [[Tang dynasty]]. Its chief editor is the chancellor [[Fang Xuanling]], who dies in this year as well.

==== Religion ====
* [[Pope Theodore I]] excommunicates Paul II of [[Constantinople]].</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[Emperor Kōbun|Kōbun]], emperor of Japan (d. [[672]])
* [[Radbod of Frisia|Radbod]], king of [[List of rulers of Frisia|Frisia]] (d. [[719]])
* [[Princess Tōchi|Tōchi]], Japanese princess (d. [[678]])

== Deaths ==
* [[Fang Xuanling]], [[chancellor of the Tang dynasty]] (b. [[579]])
* [[John III of the Sedre]], Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first1=Herman G. B. |last1=Teule|title=Yuḥanon of the Sedre|encyclopedia=Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition |editor1=Sebastian P. Brock |editor2=Aaron M. Butts |editor3=[[George A. Kiraz]] |editor4=Lucas Van Rompay |url=https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yuhanon-of-the-Sedre|year=2011|access-date=8 July 2020}}</ref>
* [[Ma Zhou]], chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. [[601]])
* [[Empress Xiao (Sui dynasty)|Xiao]], empress of the [[Sui dynasty]]

== References ==
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=== Sources ===
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* {{cite book |last=Kirby |first=D. P. |date=2000 |title=The Earliest English Kings |edition=revised |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415-24211-8}}
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