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Calendar overview 602
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Phocas becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire . | |
602 in other calendars | |
Armenian calendar | 50/51 (turn of the year July) |
Ethiopian calendar | 594/595 |
Buddhist calendar | 1145/46 (southern Buddhism); 1144/45 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 54th (55th) cycle
Year of the Water Dog壬戌 ( at the beginning of the year metal rooster 辛酉) |
Jewish calendar | 4362/63 (September 21-22) |
Coptic calendar | 318/319 |
Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MCCCLV (1355)
Diocletian's era : 318/319 (turn of the year November) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 912/913 (April)
Syria: 913/914 (October) |
Spanish era | 640 |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 658/659 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Europe
- November 27 : The Eastern Roman emperor Maurikios is murdered after very successful campaigns against the Slavs and Phocas ascends the throne. In the overthrow by the general Phokas, the circus parties play a decisive role. The Sassanid Chosrau II begins an invasion of the Eastern Roman territory shortly afterwards. Thus the realm of can Avars recover and to destruction by Charlemagne almost two centuries continue later. With the death of Maurikios, some Anglo-American research brings the late antiquity to an end.
- Franconian campaign against the Basques . Merovingian civil war : In Gascony judge Theudebert II. And Theodoric II. , A limit dukedom.
Asia
- The Sassanids under Chosrau II destroy the northern Arab empire of the Lachmids , whose ruler an-Numan III. is executed.
religion
- Discussion at Aust at Chepstow between Augustine and the Welsh bishops over questions of the date of Easter and the liturgy
Born
- Adaloald , Lombard King († 626 )
- Li Chunfeng , Chinese mathematician, astronomer and historian († 670 )
- Sigibert II. , Son of the Frankish king Theuderich II. († 613 )
- Theodore of Tarsus , Archbishop of Canterbury († 690 )
Died
Date of death secured
- November 27 : Maurikios , Eastern Roman Emperor (* 539 )
- November 27th : Tiberios , son of Emperor Maurikios (* after 583 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Baian , ruler of the Avars
- Komentiolos , Eastern Roman general
- Petros , Eastern Roman general, brother of Emperor Maurikios
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