Events

By Place

Europe

• Oswiu of Northumbria annexes Mercia.

Asia

• The Battle of Bassorah (also known as Battle of the Camel) between Ali and Aisha, part of the first civil war in Islam, takes place in modern-day Basra, Iraq.
• Empress Saimei of Japan builds a new palace at Asuka, because her former residences took fire. This canal is called "the Mad Canal" by the people of that day, wasting the labor of tens of thousand workers and a large amount of money.

By Topic

Religion

• Ali succeeds Uthman as Caliph.
• When a Chinese prince (later to be Emperor Zhongzong of Tang) is made crown prince, his lavish palatial mansion in Chang'an is converted into a Daoist abbey.

Births

• Emperor Zhongzong of Tang

Deaths

• Uthman ibn Affan, Caliph (assassinated)
• Peada, king of Mercia (assassinated)
• Cui Dunli
• Li Daozong