660

Events 
 The Umayyad Empire was established.
 In the year 660 the kingdom of Silla invaded the kingdom of Baekje. (see Korea)
 Empress Saimei of Japan makes an order to dispatch a force to the Korean Peninsula to save Baekje.

 Births 
 Yamanoue no Okura, Japanese poet (d. 733) (see: Waka)