Naka-no-Oe takes over the Japanese government and…

Zhang Wen Ming, who had become a monk at age fourteen, is an admirer of Faxian and Xuanzang, both famed monks of his childhood.

Renamed Yijing and provided with funding by an otherwise unknown benefactor named Fong, he had decided to visit the renowned Buddhist university of Nālandā, in Bihar, India, to further study Buddhism.

Traveling by a Persian boat out of Guangzhou, he arrives in the capital of the partly Buddhist kingdom of Srivijaya (today's Palembang of Sumatra) after twenty-two days, where he spends the next six months learning Sanskrit grammar and Malay language.

He reports over a thousand Buddhist monks in residence.

He goes on to record visits to the nations of Melayu and Kiteh (Kedah), and in 673 after ten days additional travel reaches the "naked kingdom" (south west of Shu).

Yijing records his impression of the "Kunlun peoples", using an ancient Chinese word for Malay peoples.

"Kunlun people have curly hair, dark bodies, bare feet and wear sarongs."

Silla seizes control in 671 of the former Baekje capital of Sabi from the Tang Protectorate General to Pacify the East.

Cuthbert becomes prior of a monastery at Melrose, Scotland, that he had entered in 651 as a teenager.

He moves in 664 to Lindisfarne, an island off England’s northeast coast, and becomes prior at the abbey there.

After some years here, he elects to live as a hermit on the nearby island of Farne.

Emperor Kōbun reigns briefly as emperor of Japan, followed by his uncle Emperor Temmu who overthrows his nephew in a brief but violent conflict called the Jinshin War.

Prince Oama raises an army, then engages Otomo’s forces outside his capital in Omi province (present Shiga prefecture), scoring a decisive victory in 672.

Recceswinth's successor Wamba ascends the Visigothic throne in throne in 672.

At the instigation of the Christian priests, he orders all the unconverted Jews to leave the kingdom.

Otomo commits suicide following the defeat of his forces in the war of imperial succession, called Jinjshin-no-ran in Japan, and Oama becomes Emperor Temmu Tenno.

He establishes his capital at Asuka in Yamato province (present-day Nara prefecture), a safe distance from the seats of Nakatomi and Soga power.

Hilderic, Governor of Nimes, revolts against Wamba, and many Jews join him.

One Duke Paul is sent from Toledo to put down the rebellion, but converts instead to Judaism.

The rebellion fails, however, and …

…the Jews of Narbonne are expelled.

Pope Adeodatus II succeeds Pope Vitalian as the seventy-seventh pope.