666
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"[666] was long and bombastic, but it sold well."--The Rough Guide to the Best Music You've Never Heard (2008) by Nigel Williamson |
Related e |
Featured: |
Year 666 (DCLXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 666 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.
Contents |
[edit]
Events
[edit]
By place
[edit]
Europe
- Chertsey Abbey is founded.
- Barking Abbey is founded.
- Wilfrid returns from France newly consecrated as Bishop of York.
[edit]
China
- Chinese Buddhist monks Zhi Yu and Zhi You craft more South Pointing Chariot vehicles for Emperor Tenji of Japan, as recorded in the Nihon Shoki (the South Pointing Chariot is a non-magnetic, mechanical-driven directional-compass vehicle that incorporates the use of a differential gear).
[edit]
See also
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "666" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.