653

This page relates to the year 653 Calendrier Julien.

Events

  • the Byzantine Empereur Constant II makes arrest and imprison by exarque Ravenne the pope Martin I {{er}}, shown plot with the Arabs. The June 19th, the pope is embarked with Constantinople, where he is condemned to died the December 20th then exiled with Chersôn in the Crimea. It dies there in the hunger and misery in 654.

  • Arrest in Rome of Maxime the Confessor, principal theologist of the party opposed to the monothélètes. Condemned to Constantinople, he is tortured, exiled but will always refuse the Typos of Constant II.
  • Beginning of the reign of Aripert, king of the Lombards (fine in 661). He is made baptize.
  • the king of the Visigoths Receswinthe promulgates a code inspired of the Roman law ( Liber jurdiciorum or Forum judicium ) instituting a total parity between its Romains subjects and Goths in Spain.

  • England: Travel of the abbot of Ripon Wilfrid to Rome.

  • Treated between the Moslems and the Christians of Arménie.

    • the Byzantine emperor Constant II invades then the Arménie with 100.000 men; The governor of Arménie and Ibérie Theodore Rechtouni reconquers it later a few months with the help of the Arabs.
    • the caliph chooses Armenian prince Theodore Rechtouni to manage Arménie, naming it patrician. With time, the patricians become virtually kings.
    • the history of Arménie, during one century, is marked by the ceaseless flow of the armies Arab and Byzantine, which clash. The Armenians, led by generals resulting from the family of the Bagratouni, are combined with the ones against the others, the sandstone of the conflicts.

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