623

Year 623 (DCXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 623 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

Byzantine Empire

• Persians still at Chalcedon (modern Turkey). He sails with 5,000 reinforcements to join the Byzantine army at Trapezus. Raising additional forces in Pontus, Heraclius strikes through the mountains of Armenia and the northern sub-Caucasian principalities. He plunders Media (Azerbaijan), and avoids the Persian armies who attempt to trap him.^[1]

• King
  Mayor of the Palace), and in recognition of calls from the Austrasians for a king of their own. Arnulf, bishop of Metz
  , becomes advisor to Dagobert.
• Avars proves his utilitas (usefulness) to his subjects, and he secures the throne to establish his own kingdom, which stretches from the upper Elbe to the Danube.^[2]

• Tuyuhun invasion of Gansu: Tang forces under Chai Shao defeat the Tuyuhun, and prevent further incursions into Gansu (China).

By topic

Art

• Tori Busshi makes "Shaka Triad", in the kon-dō of Hōryū-ji, during the Asuka period (approximate date).

Religion

• The
  Ka'ba
  .

Births

• Caliph (d. 685
  )

• Jizang, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 549)
• Liu Heita, rebel leader during the Tang dynasty
• Lupus of Sens, French bishop (approximate date)
• Pingyang, princess of the Tang dynasty (b. 598)
• Su Wei, high official of the Sui dynasty (b. 542)
• Xu Yuanlang, rebel leader during the Sui dynasty

References