640

640 (DCXL) was a leap year beginning on a Saturday of the Julian calendar, in effect on that date.

Events

• Muslims capture Alexandria.
• Tulga is elected king of the Visigoths.
• Severino happens to Honorius I as a pope.
• John IV happens to Severino as a pope.
• Kermanshah was conquered by the Arabs.

Births

• Musa ibn Nusair, Muslim leader, participated in the Muslim invasion of the Iberian peninsula.

Deaths

• 2 August: Severino, Pope of the Catholic Church.
• Chintila, king of the Visigoths.
• Bilal Ibn Rabah, first mutini.