600

Centuries:	5th century · 6th century · 7th century
Decades:	570s 580s 590s 600s 610s 620s 630s
Years:	597 598 599 600 601 602 603

600 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Events

Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time.
King Ingvar of Sweden invades Estonia but is killed by the locals.
Royal House Juchau (House of Gad) Teutonic, Anglo-Saxon tribesmen arrive on the southeastern coast of England 5th century.

Loma Caldera in El Salvador erupts, burying the Maya village of Joya de Cerén.
The Hopewell tradition of North America ceases to be the dominant culture.
The city of Teotihuacán in what is now central Mexico begins to grow unstable, as they exhaust their resources until their inevitable collapse (possibly caused by the Toltec) circa AD 700.
Nazca culture ends in the Andes.
Moche culture ends in the Andes.
Middle Horizon period starts in the Andes.

The moldboard plow is invented in eastern Europe.
The earliest references to chess are found in the Persian work Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan, and the Indian works of Subandhu's Vasavadatta and Banabhatta's Harsha Charitha.

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).
Nubian rulers become Christian (approximate date).

Venance Fortunat, bishop of Poitiers, one of the last representatives of Classical Latin poetry
King Beop of Baekje, king of the Baekje Kingdom of Korea
Yang Jun