Decades: 600s 610s 620s 630s 640s - 650s - 660s 670s 680s 690s 700s

Years: 650 651 652 653 654 - 655 - 656 657 658 659 660

• Empress Saimei ascends to the throne of Japan.
• Clovis II succeeded by Clotaire III.
• Battle of Winwaed: Northumbrian king Oswiu defeats the pagan Mercian king Penda
• Peada succeeds his father Penda as king of Mercia

Deaths

• September 1 - Pope Martin I (in exile)
• Penda, king of Mercia