602
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This article is about the year 602. For the number (and other uses), see 602 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 570s 580s 590s – 600s – 610s 620s 630s |
| Years: | 599 600 601 – 602 – 603 604 605 |
| 602 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 602 DCII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1355 |
| Armenian calendar | 51 ԹՎ ԾԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5352 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1242–-1241 |
| Bengali calendar | 9 |
| Berber calendar | 1552 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1146 |
| Burmese calendar | -36 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6110–6111 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛酉年十二月初三日 (3238/3298-12-3) — to —
壬戌年十一月十三日(3239/3299-11-13) |
| Coptic calendar | 318–319 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 594–595 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4362–4363 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 658–659 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 524–525 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3703–3704 |
| Holocene calendar | 10602 |
| Iranian calendar | 20 BP – 19 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 21 BH – 20 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 602 DCII |
| Korean calendar | 2935 |
| Minguo calendar | 1310 before ROC 民前1310年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1145 |
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Year 602 (DCII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 602 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] Byzantine Empire
- Maurice, at war with the Avars and always dealing with the lack of money, decrees that the army should stay for winter beyond the Danube, which proves to be a serious mistake. The exhausted troops mutiny against the Emperor. Maurice and his family flee to Chalcedon, and Phocas is proclaimed emperor. Maurice and his sons are executed.
- A series of wars begin between the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanid Empire.
[edit] Births
- Li Chunfeng
- Liu Rengui
- Mu'awiyah, founder of the Umayyad Dynasty of caliphs (approximate date)
- Xuanzang, famous Chinese Buddhist monk
- Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 690)
- Zhiyan
[edit] Deaths
- Empress Dugu Qieluo (b. 544)
- November 27 – Emperor Maurice (b. 539)
- Theodosius, Maurice's eldest son and co-emperor
