Events

• King Reccaswinth issues Visigothic law code.
• Rhodes invaded by Arab force. Remains of the Colossus of Rhodes sold off.
• September 17 - Martin I arrives in Constantinople, where he is eventually deposed as pope by the emperor Constans II
• Eugene I elected pope.
• Botolph founds his monastery, presumably in Boston.

Births

Deaths

• Emperor Kotoku of Japan
• Penda of Mercia, king of Mercia, overthrown and killed by Oswiu