605
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This article is about the year 605. For the number (and other uses), see 605 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 570s 580s 590s – 600s – 610s 620s 630s |
| Years: | 602 603 604 – 605 – 606 607 608 |
| 605 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 605 DCV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1358 |
| Armenian calendar | 54 ԹՎ ԾԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5355 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1239–-1238 |
| Bengali calendar | 12 |
| Berber calendar | 1555 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1149 |
| Burmese calendar | -33 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6113–6114 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲子年十二月初六日 (3241/3301-12-6) — to —
乙丑年十一月十六日(3242/3302-11-16) |
| Coptic calendar | 321–322 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 597–598 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4365–4366 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 661–662 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 527–528 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3706–3707 |
| Holocene calendar | 10605 |
| Iranian calendar | 17 BP – 16 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 18 BH – 17 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2938 |
| Minguo calendar | 1307 before ROC 民前1307年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1148 |
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Year 605 (DCV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 605 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] Asia
- As a result of a quarrel between Numan III, the Lakhmid ruler, and the Persian Chosroes, the Persian border with Arabia is no longer guarded.
- Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty orders the capital to be transferred from Chang'an to Luoyang, and orders the Grand Canal to be built.
- Amshuvarma becomes king of Licchavi.
- The Chinese Zhaozhou Bridge is completed under the Sui Dynasty, the earliest known fully stone open-spandrel segmental arch bridge in the world. Although the earlier Roman era Trajan's Bridge featured segmental arches, they were built of wood on top of stone piers.
[edit] America
- Aj Ne' Yohl Mat becomes ruler of Palenque.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- May 26 – Augustine of Canterbury (d. this year or 604)
- Damian, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria
- Alexander of Tralles, Greek physician
