630s

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Overview: History - Epochs - Turnings - Centuries BC - Centuries AD Millenniums: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Centuries: 6th century - 7th century - 8th century Decades: 600s - 610s - 620s - 630s - 640s - 650s - 660s - 670s - 680s - 690s

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• 631 - Conversion of the East Angles (one of the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy)
• 632 - Death of Mohammad. After his death, Abu Bakr (573-634) was elected caliph or leader/successor/deputy of the Prophet (see List of Muslim Caliphs)
• 632 - From 632 to 640 Muslim armies surge east into the Sassanid kingdeom of Persia, whom they defeat at Nihawand in 642, completely taking control of the Persian Empire.
• 634 - Islam. Death of Abu Bakr and accession of Umar (634-644).
• 635 - First Christian missionaries (Nestorian monks, including Alopen, from Asia Minor and Persia) arrive in China; Aidan of Lindisfarne begins evangelizing in the heart of Northumbria (England)
• 637 - Lombards, a German people living in northern Italy, become Christians
• 638 - A church building is erected in Ch'ang-an, then perhaps the largest city in the world
• 638 - Fall of Jerusalem to Muslim armies.