610

Calendar overview 610

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610
Herakleios overthrows Phocas and becomes emperor of Byzantium .
610 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	58/59 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	602/603
Buddhist calendar	1153/54 (southern Buddhism); 1152/53 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	55th (56th) cycle Year of the Metal Horse庚午 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Snake 己巳)
Jewish calendar	4370/71 (23/24 September)
Coptic calendar	326/327
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MCCCLXIII (1363) Diocletian's era : 326/327 (New Year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 920/921 (April) Syria: 921/922 (October)
Spanish era	648
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	666/667 (turn of the year April)

Events

October 4th : Herakleios , the son of the governor of Carthage , takes Constantinople after a brief civil war and overthrows the emperor Phocas , who is cruelly mutilated.
October 5th : Herakleios becomes Emperor of Eastern Europe until his death in 641 .
Roman-Persian Wars : The Sassanids use the crisis surrounding the change of the Eastern Roman throne to invade Syria and Asia Minor.

Alemanni win against Trans-Jurassic troops in the battle of Wangas ( Wangen bei Olten ?).
The Avars invade Italy into the kingdom of the Lombards . Tasso becomes Duke of Friuli as the successor to Gisulf II , who fell in the battle against the Avars. During the capture of Forum Iulii , all men are killed, the women and children kidnapped. However, Gisulf's sons Raduald and Grimoald escape. Why the Avars attack the Lombards, with whom they are usually on good terms, is unclear. The fact that the Longobard king Agilulf apparently does not provide any help leads to the assumption that the Avars are taking action against Gisulf on his behalf.
Gundemar becomes King of the Visigoths , he is the successor of Witterich .
Merovingian Fratricidal War : Theudebert II , King of Australia , murders his first wife Bilichildis ; shortly afterwards he married Theudichilde .

Sergios I becomes Patriarch of Constantinople as successor to Thomas I.
Columban the Younger and Gallus evangelize in the Bregenz area after they were expelled from Luxeuil .

Mohammed proclaims that he will receive revelations through the Archangel Gabriel , which will later be found in the Koran .

April: Witterich , King of the Visigoths
October 5 : Phocas , Eastern Roman emperor, murdered (* after 547)
Tassilo I , Duke of Bavaria
December 14 between 600 and 610: Venantius Fortunatus , Latin poet (* around 536 )
around 610: Gisulf II , Dux of the Longobards (killed in the fight against the Avars)

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