600
Years:
596
597
598
599
-
600
-
601
602
603
604
Decades
:
570s
580s
590s
-
600s
-
610s
620s
630s
Centuries
:
5th century
-
6th century
-
7th century
Contents
1 Events
2 Environmental change
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
The moldboard
plow
is invented in
eastern Europe
Possibly the first reference to
chess
, in the
Persian
work Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan.
The Persians begin to use
windmills
for
irrigation
.
Pope Gregory I
codifies what comes to be known as
Gregorian chant
.
Construction on the
monastery
of
St. Catherine
is begun on
Mount Sinai
.
Irish
missionaries
preach in
Scotland
and
Germany
.
Chinese
-influenced sculptures of
Buddha
begin to be created in
Japan
.
Sumatra
,
Java
, and the surrounding islands are converted to
Buddhism
.
Augustine of Canterbury
converts
Ethelbert of Kent
to
Christianity
(approximate date).
The
Hopewell
culture of
North America
ceases to be the dominant culture.
Environmental change
The population of the
Earth
rises to about 208 million people.
Smallpox
arrives in
Europe
for the first time.
Births
Ali Ben Abu Talib
, the fourth
caliph
of
Islam
Deaths
Venance Fortunat
, bishop of
Poitiers
, one of the last representatives of
Classical Latin
poetry
.
John Climax
, ascetic and mystic.
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