652


Year 652 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 652 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

Britain

Arab Empire

Asia

  • The registers of population are prepared in Japan. Fifty houses are made a township, and for each township there is appointed an elder. The houses are all associated in groups of five for mutual protection, with one elder to supervise them one with another. This system prevails until the era of World War II.
  • The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda is constructed in Chang'an, during the Tang dynasty. It is completed in the same year, during the reign of Emperor Gao Zong.

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