637 CE
Domnall's fleet destroys the naval force of Dál Riata at the Mull of Kintyre.
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Queen Seondeok of Silla builds, near Gyeongju, an astronomical observatory (Cheomseongdae) one of the oldest in East Asia.
Songtsän Gampo builds the first palace on the site of the Potala Palace in Lhasa.
The Muslims overthrow the rulers of Ghassan, which had remained a Roman vassal state.
Xuanzang sets out in 637 from Lumbini to …
…Kusinagara, the site of Buddha's death, before heading southwest to …
…the deer park at Sarnath, where Buddha gave his first sermon, and where Xuanzang finds fifteen hundred resident monks.
Traveling eastward, at first via Varanasi, …
…Xuanzang reaches Vaisali, …
…Pataliputra (Patna) and …
…Bodh Gaya.
He is then accompanied by local monks to …
