620s

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	590s 600s 610s – 620s – 630s 640s 650s
Years:	620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

620s: events by year

Contents: 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629

620

By place

Byzantine Empire

• The Slavs attack Thessaloniki.

India

• Pulakesi II defeats the Harsha army on the Banks of the River Narmada. A truce establishes Narmada as the southern boundary of Harsha's kingdom.

By topic

Religion

• Medina is converted to Islam.

621

By place

Asia

• May 28 – Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin defeats the numerically superior army of Dou Jiande.
• June 4 – Wang Shichong surrenders to Li Shimin following Dou Jiande's defeat.

By topic

Religion

• Muhammad is said to have visited heaven aboard the steed/unicorn with wings or Buraq, in the Isra wal-Miraj, (the Night Journey), from Mecca and then to heaven from Jerusalem's Temple Mount, then back to Mecca.

622

By topic

Religion

• July 16 – Year one of the Islamic calendar begins, during which the Hijra occurs – Muhammad and his followers emigrate from Mecca to Medina in September.^[1]
• Xuanzang is fully ordained as a monk at the age of 20.^[2]

Literature

623

By place

Europe

• Clotaire II, king of the Franks, makes his son Dagobert I king of Austrasia.
• Samo, reputedly a Frankish merchant, is elected King of the Slavs in Moravia, Slovakia and Lower Austria.

By topic

Art

• Tori Busshi makes "Shaka Triad", in the kon-dō, Horyu-ji. Asuka period (approximate date).

624

By place

Byzantine Empire

• After 70 years of Byzantine rule, the Visigoths recapture Andalusia.

By topic

Religion

• Justus becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
• March 17 – The Battle of Badr is fought.

625

By topic

Religion

• March 23 – Battle of Uhud (Muhammad retreats against the inhabitants of Mecca), which they consider a victory.
• October 27 – Pope Honorius I succeeds Pope Boniface V as the 70th pope.

626

By place

Byzantine Empire

• August 7 – The Byzantines defeat the Avars and Slavs, who were besieging Constantinople for the first time.

Europe

• Arioald succeeds his brother-in-law Adaloald as king of the Lombards (approximate date).
• Edinburgh is founded by King Edwin of Northumbria.
• Penda becomes king of Mercia (traditional date).

Asia

• July 2 – In the early morning, Li Shimin, the future Emperor Tang Taizong of China, eliminates two of his brothers, Li Yuanji and the crown prince Li Jiancheng, in a coup d'état at the Xuanwu Gate in Chang'an.
• September 3 – Emperor Gaozu of Tang China abdicates in favor of his son Li Shimin.

627

By place

Byzantine Empire

• December 12 – Battle of Nineveh: Emperor Heraclius defeats the Persians, ending the Roman-Persian Wars.

Asia

• Yathrib (Medina): Battle of the Trench: Muhammad successfully withstands a siege by Meccan forces, whose allies, the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza, ultimately surrender to Muhammad.
• Third Perso-Turkic War: Tong Yabghu of the Western Gokturks storms and sacks the Caspian Gates at Derbent.

By topic

Religion

• April 11 – Paulinus, a Roman missionary, baptizes King Edwin of Deira.

Education

• St Peter's School, York, founded by Paulinus

628

By place

Europe

• Pippin of Landen becomes Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia.

Asia

• January – Third Perso-Turkic War: Emperor Heraclius ravages the environs of Ctesiphon; Tong Yabghu of the Western Gokturks storms and sacks Tbilisi.
• February 23 – Khosrau II of Persia is overthrown. His son Kavadh II rules as his successor until October.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• Brahmagupta writes the Brahmasphutasiddhanta, an early, yet very advanced, math book.

629

By place

Persian and Byzantine Empires

• September – Jerusalem is reconquered by the Byzantine Empire from the Persian Empire.
• The Battle of Mu'tah, the first Muslim expedition outside Arabia, fails to take the lands east of the Jordan River.
• Poet Al-Khansa meets Muhammad and converts to Islam.

Europe

• Dagobert I becomes king of all of the Frankish territory.
• Battle of Fid Eoin: The king of Dál Riata, Connad Cerr, is defeated by the Dál nAraidi, led by Máel Caích.

Asia

• Emperor Jomei ascends to the throne of Japan.
• The Chinese Tang Dynasty launches Emperor Taizong's campaign against Eastern Tujue, a Göktürk khanate. The campaign is led in late winter by military commander Li Jing.
• Arabia: Battle of Khaybar – Muslim attack and capture of this fortified Jewish oasis, 150 kilometers from Medina.

America

• The Maya military outpost of Dos Pilas is founded.

Significant people

Births

Deaths

References