600

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).
• Balkan Peninsula.^[1]
• Rome continues as part of the Byzantine Empire. The Italian mainland is divided into 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.
• Avars
  and the Franks who try to invade.
• According to the
  Ingvar Harra of Sweden invades Adalsysla (present day Lääne County in Estonia), but is killed by the locals (approximate date).^[5]
• Smallpox arrives in Western Europe for the first time (approximate date).

Britain

• The Welsh
  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.^[6]

• The first of the Japanese embassies to Imperial China is sent (approximate date).^{[citation needed]}
• 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, extends the Grand Canal
  . He reportedly assumes 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 the 1,550 mile canal.
• China
  .
• The oldest inscription in Mon language dated from 600 AD. later found at Wat Phorang, Thailand.
• Mu becomes king of the Korean kingdom of Baekje.^[7]

Meso- and South America

• 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).
• The Wari Empire is established in The Andes (approximate date)
• The
  Middle Horizon period
  starts in the Andes.

Pacific Ocean

• Early settlers from the Marquesas build the Alakoko fishpond and taro fields on Kauai, Hawaii.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• The Germanic peoples, 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.^[8]
• Possibly the first reference to
  Persian
  work Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan.
• 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-
  Maya culture
  .
• 600-900 - Cylindrical vessel is made. Maya culture. It is now kept at the Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey.
• 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

• Gregory the Great decrees "God bless You" as the religiously correct response to a sneeze.^{[citation needed}
  ]
• Pope Gregory I codifies what comes to be known as the Gregorian chant^{[dubious – discuss]}.
• Construction on the monastery of St. Catherine is begun on Mount Sinai.
• Irish missionaries preach in Scotland and Germany (approximate date).
• Japan
  .
• 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

• Yuknoom the Great a Maya ruler of Calakmul
• Shī‘ah imām
  (approximate date)
• bishop of Thérouanne
  (approximate date)
• Bhāskara I, Indian mathematician (approximate date)
• Birinus, bishop of Dorchester (approximate date)
• Candrakīrti, Indian Madhyamaka
  philosopher
• bishop of Cologne
  (approximate date)
• 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

• March 13 - Leander, bishop of Seville possibly in 601)
• Uí Maine (Ireland
  )
• Beop, king of Baekje (Korea)^[7]
• Bhavavarman I, king of Cambodia
• Cainnech of Aghaboe, Irish abbot and saint (b. c.515)
• Uatu mac Áedo, king of Connacht (Ireland)
• Venantius Fortunatus, bishop of Poitiers, one of the last representatives of Classical Latin poetry
• Sui Dynasty (b. 571
  )