608
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This article is about the year 608. For the number, see 608 (number). For other uses, see 608 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 570s 580s 590s – 600s – 610s 620s 630s |
| Years: | 605 606 607 – 608 – 609 610 611 |
| 608 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 608 DCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1361 |
| Armenian calendar | 57 ԹՎ ԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5358 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1236–-1235 |
| Bengali calendar | 15 |
| Berber calendar | 1558 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1152 |
| Burmese calendar | -30 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6116–6117 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁卯年十二月初九日 (3244/3304-12-9) — to —
戊辰年十一月十九日(3245/3305-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 324–325 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 600–601 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4368–4369 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 664–665 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 530–531 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3709–3710 |
| Holocene calendar | 10608 |
| Iranian calendar | 14 BP – 13 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 14 BH – 13 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2941 |
| Minguo calendar | 1304 before ROC 民前1304年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1151 |
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Year 608 (DCVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 608 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] Europe
- Eochaid Buide succeeds Áedán mac Gabráin as king of Dál Riata.
[edit] Asia
- Khosrau II of Persia attacks Chalcedon.
- Prince Shotoku of Japan appoints Ono no Imoko as official envoy to Sui for a second time and sends him to pay tribute to the Sui court.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- August 25 – Pope Boniface IV succeeds Pope Boniface III as the 67th pope.
- The observance of Halloween in the Roman Catholic Church is first recorded.
- Georgian Orthodox Church returns to Chalcedonism
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Áedán mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riata
