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Calendar overview 603
Map with all linked sites: | 603 | |
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 starts a war against the Byzantine Empire . |
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| 603 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 51/52 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 595/596 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1146/47 (southern Buddhism); 1145/46 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 54th (55th) cycle
Year of the Water Pig癸亥 ( at the beginning of the year Water Dog 壬戌) |
| Jewish calendar | 4363/64 (September 11-12) |
| Coptic calendar | 319/320 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCCCLVI (1356)
Diocletian's era : 319/320 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 913/914 (April)
Syria: 914/915 (October) |
| Spanish era | 641 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 659/660 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Europe
- Bernicias victory under Æthelfrith over Dalriada under Aidan .
- June / July: Witterich succeeds Liuva II as King of the Visigoths .
- The later Pope Boniface III. becomes envoy of the Roman Curia in Constantinople .
- July / August: King Agilulf leaves Mediolanum ( Milan ) with a Longobard army and besieges Cremona with Avar auxiliaries , which he takes a month later.
Asia
- The war that began at the instigation of the Chinese rulers of the Sui dynasty within the successor states of the first kingdom of the Gök Turks, which was primarily directed against their most powerful ruler Tardus, weakened both the eastern and western Turkish peoples lastingly.
- Under the rule of the Japanese Empress Suiko , the Chinese system of officials was adopted in the form of Kan'i jūni kai .
religion
- Legendary foundation of the Schuttern monastery by the monk Offo
nature and environment
- August 12th : Total solar eclipse in southern France, Sicily and Egypt.
Born
- March 23 : K'inich Janaab 'Pakal I. , ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque († 683 )
- Muawiya I , Caliph of Muslims from 661 to 680 and founder of the Umayyad dynasty († 680 )
- Xuanzang , Buddhist pilgrim monk from China († 664 )
Died
- Liuva II , King of the Visigoths
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