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Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

601 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	601 DCI
Ab urbe condita	1354
Armenian calendar	50 ԹՎ Ծ
Bahá'í calendar	-1243 – -1242
Bengali calendar	8
Berber calendar	1551
Buddhist calendar	1145
Burmese calendar	-37
Byzantine calendar	6109 – 6110
Chinese calendar	庚申年十一月廿二日 (3237/3297-11-22) — to — 辛酉年十二月初二日 (3238/3298-12-2)
Coptic calendar	317 – 318
Ethiopian calendar	593 – 594
Hebrew calendar	4361 – 4362
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	656 – 657
- Shaka Samvat	523 – 524
- Kali Yuga	3702 – 3703
Holocene calendar	10601
Iranian calendar	21 BP – 20 BP
Islamic calendar	22 BH – 21 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2934
Thai solar calendar	1144
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[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Byzantine Empire

• Peter (Byzantine General) defeats the Eurasian Avars.

[edit] Europe

• Liuva II succeeds his brother Reccared as King of the Visigoths.

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[edit] Arts and sciences

• The earliest dated English words are 'Town' and 'Priest', both recorded in the Laws of Æthelberht of Kent.^{[citation needed]}
• The Qieyun, a Chinese character rhyme dictionary, is published.

[edit] Religion

• The future Archbishops of Canterbury, Mellitus, Justus, and Honorius, and the future Archbishop of York Paulinus, are sent to England by Pope Gregory I to aid Augustine in his missionary work.

[edit] Births

• Sigebert II of Austrasia and Burgundy
• Hongren, a Zen Buddhist patriarch of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (d. 674)
• Ma Zhou, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 648)
• Empress Zhangsun

[edit] Deaths

• Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales
• Reccared, King of the Visigoths