600
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 570s 580s 590s – 600s – 610s 620s 630s |
| Years: | 597 598 599 – 600 – 601 602 603 |
| 600 by topic | |
| Politics | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 600 DC |
| Ab urbe condita | 1353 |
| Armenian calendar | 49 ԹՎ ԽԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5350 |
| Bengali calendar | 7 |
| Berber calendar | 1550 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1144 |
| Burmese calendar | −38 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6108–6109 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年 (Earth Goat) 3296 or 3236 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3297 or 3237 |
| Coptic calendar | 316–317 |
| Discordian calendar | 1766 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 592–593 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4360–4361 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 656–657 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 522–523 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3701–3702 |
| Holocene calendar | 10600 |
| Iranian calendar | 22 BP – 21 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 23 BH – 22 BH |
| Japanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 600 DC |
| Korean calendar | 2933 |
| Minguo calendar | 1312 before ROC 民前1312年 |
| Seleucid era | 911/912 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1142–1143 |
Eastern hemisphere (600 AD)
Byzantine Empire (600 AD)
Year 600 (DC) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 600 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Europe
- King Chlothar II of Neustria is defeated by his nephews, Theudebert II and Theuderic II, at Dormelles (approximate date).
- Germanic and Slavic peoples have tremendous population growth, with the Slavs colonizing the Balkan Peninsula.[1]
- Rome continues as part of the Byzantine Empire. The Italian mainland is divided in independent cities and duchies.[2]
- Venice continues as an independent realm, having been built up from fishing villages and settled by fugitives.[3]
- Dorestad, lying in a fork between two branches of the Rhine, is established by the Franks as a trade center.[4]
- King Agilulf of the Lombards and queen Theodelinda build a palace complex at Monza, northeast of Milan.
- Moravians gain independence by holding off the attacks from the Avars and the Franks who try to invade.
- King Ingvar of Sweden invades Estonia but is killed by the locals (approximate date).
- Smallpox arrives in Western Europe for the first time (approximate date).
Britain
- Welsh bard, prince Aneirin of the Pennines (North West of England), writes the poem, "Y Gododdin", recording the events of the Battle of Catraeth.
- The Britons of Strathclyde (Scotland), Wales and Cornwall are all separated by the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.[5]
Asia
- First of the Japanese embassies to Imperial China (approximate date).
- The Persians begin to use windmills for irrigation (approximate date).
- Namri Songtsen becomes the new king of Tibet (approximate date).
- Chaturanga is played in its current form in India (approximate date).
- Yangdi, a Sui emperor, extended the Grand Canal. He reportedly assumed power by poisoning his father. Ma Shu-mou, aka Mahu, was one of the canal overseers and was said to have eaten a steamed 2-year-old child each day he worked on the canal. On completion the canal extended for 1,100 miles. 5.5 million people were pressed into service to complete 1,550 mile canal.
- Quill pens, made from the outer feathers of crows and other large birds, became popular. The 1st books were printed in China.
Mesoamerica
- Loma Caldera (El Salvador) erupts, burying the Maya village of Joya de Cerén (approximate date).
- The Hopewell tradition (North America) ceases to be the dominant culture (approximate date).
- The city of Teotihuacan (Central Mexico) begins to grow unstable, as they exhaust their resources until their inevitable collapse (possibly caused by the Toltec) circa 700.
- Moche culture ends in the Andes (approximate date).
- Nazca culture ends in the Andes (approximate date).
- Middle Horizon period starts in the Andes.
Pacific Ocean
- Early settlers from the Marquesas built the Alakoko fishpond and taro fields on Kauai, Hawaii.
By topic
Arts and sciences
- The Germanic people due to the more abundant food supply available, use the "moldboard" plow, introduced by the Slavs in Eastern Europe. The plow works the land with horses and oxen.[6]
- The earliest references to chess are made in the Persian work Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan, and the Indian works of Subandhu's Vasavadatta and Banabhatta's Harsha Charitha.
- 600-750 - Maguey Bloodletting Ritual, fragment of a fresco from Teotihuacan, Mexico, is made. Teotihuacan culture. It is now kept at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
- 600-900 - Palace and Temple of the Inscriptions (tomb-pyramid of K'inich Janaab' Pakal), Palenque, Mexico, are built. Maya culture.
- The Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (Voyage of St. Brendan the Abbott) recounts a 7-year trip to a land across the sea by the Irish saint and a band of acolytes about this time.
Religion
- Feb 16, Pope Gregory the Great decreed "God bless You" as the religiously correct response to a sneeze.
- Monotheistic religion has spread to Arabia. The province of Najran becomes Christian.
- Pope Gregory I codifies what comes to be known as Gregorian chant.
- Construction on the monastery of St. Catherine is begun on Mount Sinai.
- Irish missionaries preach in Scotland and Germany (approximate date).
- Chinese-influenced sculptures of Buddha begin to be created in Japan.
- Sumatra, Java, and the surrounding islands are converted to Buddhism.
- Augustine of Canterbury converts Æthelberht of Kent to Christianity (approximate date).
- Nubian rulers become Christian (approximate date).
World
- The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people (approximate date).
Births
- Ali ibn Abi Talib, Muslim caliph and Shī‘ah imām (approximate date)
- Audomar, bishop of Thérouanne (approximate date)
- Bhāskara I, Indian mathematician (approximate date)
- Birinus, bishop of Dorchester (approximate date)
- Candrakīrti, Indian Madhyamaka philosopher
- Cunibert, bishop of Cologne (approximate date)
- Judoc, Breton noble and Catholic saint (d. 668)
- Li Shimin, son of Chinese General Li Yuan (the Duke of Tang).
- Remaclus, bishop of Maastricht (approximate date)
- Wandregisel, Frankish monk and abbot (approximate date)
- Yan Liben, Chinese painter (approximate date)
Deaths
- Aedh Buidhe, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
- Beop, king of Baekje (Korea)
- Bhavavarman I, king of Cambodia
- March 13 – Leander, bishop of Seville (or 601)
- Uatu mac Áedo, king of Connacht (Ireland)
- Venantius Fortunatus, bishop of Poitiers, one of the last representatives of Classical Latin poetry
- Yang Jun, prince of the Sui Dynasty (b. 571)
References
- ↑ McNeill, William H, "Plagues and Peoples". (Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, New York 1977)
- ↑ McEvedy, Colin, "The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History". (Rupert Hart-Davis and Crowell-Collier, U.S.A. 1978)
- ↑ Trager, James, "The Peoples Chronology". (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1979)
- ↑ Sawyer P.H., "Kings & Vikings A.D, 600–1100". (Methuen, London & New York, 1982)
- ↑ McVedy, Colin, "The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History". (Fletcher & Son Ltd., Norwich, England 1967)
- ↑ Tannahill, Reay, "Food in History". (Stein & Day, New York 1973)
