Year in Japan

650 in Japanese History

2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Asuka period (飛鳥時代, 538 – 710).

Era name: Hakuchi 白雉 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hakuchi 白雉 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from March 650 to November 654
Ōno no Azumabito 大野東人 · Samurai — Japanese samurai

Reading the year 650 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 650 corresponds to Hakuchi 白雉 (year 1 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 650年 (650ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 7th century for its neighbours.