600
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This article is about the year 600. For the number (and other uses), see 600 (number).
| 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 | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 600 DC |
| Ab urbe condita | 1353 |
| Armenian calendar | 49 ԹՎ ԽԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5350 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1244–-1243 |
| Bengali calendar | 7 |
| Berber calendar | 1550 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1144 |
| Burmese calendar | -38 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6108–6109 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年十二月初十日 (3236/3296-12-10) — to —
庚申年十一月廿一日(3237/3297-11-21) |
| Coptic calendar | 316–317 |
| 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 | |
| Julian calendar | 600 DC |
| Korean calendar | 2933 |
| Minguo calendar | 1312 before ROC 民前1312年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1143 |
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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.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] World
- The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people.
[edit] Europe
- Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time.
- King Ingvar of Sweden invades Estonia but is killed by the locals.
[edit] Asia
- The Persians begin to use windmills for irrigation.
- Chaturanga is played in its current form in India.
[edit] America
- Loma Caldera in El Salvador erupts, burying the Maya village of Joya de Cerén.
- The Hopewell tradition of North America ceases to be the dominant culture.
- The city of Teotihuacán in what is now central Mexico begins to grow unstable, as they exhaust their resources until their inevitable collapse (possibly caused by the Toltec) circa 700.
- Nazca culture ends in the Andes.
- Moche culture ends in the Andes.
- Middle Horizon period starts in the Andes.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Arts and sciences
- The moldboard plow is invented in eastern Europe.
- The earliest references to chess are found 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.
[edit] Religion
- 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.
- 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 Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity (approximate date).
- Nubian rulers become Christian (approximate date).
[edit] Births
- Ali ibn Abi Talib, Shī‘ah Imām and the fourth caliph of Sunni Islam
- Candrakirti, Indian Madhyamaka philosopher
[edit] Deaths
- Venantius Fortunatus, bishop of Poitiers, one of the last representatives of Classical Latin poetry
- King Beop of Baekje, king of the Baekje Kingdom of Korea
- Yang Jun
