600

Calendar overview 600

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600
Chlothar II suffers a heavy defeat in the Merovingian fratricidal war .	Archbishop Leander of Seville dies.
600 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	48/49 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	592/593
Buddhist calendar	1143/44 (southern Buddhism); 1142/43 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	54th (55th) cycle Year of the metal monkey庚申 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Sheep 己未)
Jewish calendar	4360/61 (September 14/15)
Coptic calendar	316/317
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MCCCLIII (1353) Diocletian's era : 316/317 (November turn of the year)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 910/911 (April) Syria: 911/912 (October)
Spanish era	638
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	656/657 (turn of the year April)

Events

Europe 533–600 (picture below)

Merovingian fratricidal war : The kings Theudebert II of Austrasia and Theuderic II of Burgundy succeed in a victory against the Neustrian Franconian King Chlothar II at Dormelles , who then has to agree to extensive territorial transfers.
around 600: The Franconian regent Brunichild has Patricius Argyla murdered.

around 600: The Kingdom of Benin in the southwest of today's Nigeria is founded.

600: malicious Tutuk Khan justified in the context of the kingdom of Göktürks in today's Kazakhstan , the Kimekenreich , which soon dissolves by the Turks.

The later Pope Sabinianus introduced the church bells to indicate the time.
around 600: In Central Europe the use of the runic script , which was especially widespread in the 6th century, declines. The same applies to the Irish Ogam script.
around 600: In Korea the use of the ladle sieve for paper production is documented.
around 600: Ships with 5 decks are built in the Chinese Empire .
around 600: The moldboard plow is used for the first time in Eastern Europe.
around 600: Windmills are built for the first time in Persia .

around 600: Pope Gregory the Great declares that the aim of the church should be conversion, not persecution, of the Jews .
around 600: As a result of the expansion of the Slavs , the Christian pilgrimage center in Hemmaberg in Carinthia is abandoned.
around 600: Ursicinus , companion of Columban of Luxeuil , missionaries in the Swiss Jura .
around 600: Himerius missionaries in Central Switzerland.
around 600: The Irish Kilbeggan Monastery is founded.
around 600: Chinese-influenced statues of Buddha appear in Japan .
around 600: Buddhism is introduced in what is now Indonesia .

Britain around 600

The Roman Empire 600

Ali ibn Abi Talib , Caliph of Muslims († 661 )
Amalberga of Maubeuge , nun and saint († around 690 )
Audomar , Bishop of Thérouanne, saint († probably 670 )
Autbert von Cambrai , saint and bishop of Arras and Cambrai († 669 )
Bhaskara I. , Indian mathematician and astronomer († around 680 )
Grimoald I , King of the Longobards († 671 )
Johannes Athalarich , illegitimate son of the Eastern Roman emperor Herakleios († 637 )
Kunibert , Bishop of Cologne († around 664 )
Martin I , Pope († 655 )
Remaclus , founder of the monastery of Stablo and Malmedy († 673 or 679 )
Yan Liben , Chinese figure painter of the early Tang dynasty († 673 )

March 13 : Leander of Seville , monk in the Benedictine order and archbishop of Seville (* around 540 )
Bhavavarman I , King of the Cambodian Chenla Empire

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