This page relates to the year 646 Calendrier Julien.

Events

• With the Japan, the emperor Kōtoku Tenno reforms the central capacity (Réforme of Taika) by abolishing the mode of the clans.

• Certains historians suggests that the “great reforms” did not take place at this time and which are an invention of the men who one century later will adapt to the archipelago of the Chinese legal apparatus ( ritsu-ryo ). Others affirm that the Soga, like all the large Ministers and emperors of the Life and VIIe century, are Koreans. It is on Japan of this time is an ethnic and cultural mosaic complex, and that many communities superimpose themselves: groups populating the archipelago since Antiquity and arrived to differing degree of the technological change, emigrants ( Kikajin ) fleeing the ceaseless conflicts of the Korea and the areas of the North-East of the China then in a state of great political instability.

• the Exarque of Carthage, Gregoire, supported by the Church of North Africa, revolts against the emperor Constant II.
• October 16th: VIIe council of Tolède.

Births in 646

Death in 646

• St-Gall d' Hibernie, founder of the Abbey of St-Gall

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