614
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 580s 590s 600s – 610s – 620s 630s 640s |
| Years: | 611 612 613 – 614 – 615 616 617 |
| 614 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 614 DCXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1367 |
| Armenian calendar | 63 ԹՎ ԿԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5364 |
| Bengali calendar | 21 |
| Berber calendar | 1564 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1158 |
| Burmese calendar | −24 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6122–6123 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3310 or 3250 — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3311 or 3251 |
| Coptic calendar | 330–331 |
| Discordian calendar | 1780 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 606–607 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4374–4375 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 670–671 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 536–537 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3715–3716 |
| Holocene calendar | 10614 |
| Iranian calendar | 8 BP – 7 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 8 BH – 7 BH |
| Japanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 614 DCXIV |
| Korean calendar | 2947 |
| Minguo calendar | 1298 before ROC 民前1298年 |
| Seleucid era | 925/926 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1156–1157 |
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Year 614 (DCXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 614 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine–Sassanid War: A Persian-Jewish army (26,000 men) by Shahrbaraz captures and sack Jerusalem after a 20-day siege. Somewhere between 57,000 and 66,500 citizens are slain; another 35,000 are enslaved, including the Patriarch Zacharias. Many churches in the city (including the "Church of the Resurrection" or Holy Sepulchre) are burned, and numerous relics, including the True Cross, the Holy Lance, and the Holy Sponge, are carried off to the Persian capital Ctesiphon.
- The Persians destroy the Ghassanid kingdom (Arabia), a vassal state of the Byzantine Empire (approximate date).
Europe
- October 18 – King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defend the rights of the Frankish nobles and the church, and regulating appointment of counts (secular officials in charge of law courts, collecting taxes, and assembling contingents for the army) while it exclude Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom.[1][2]
- The Palace of Diocletian in Split (Croatia) is damaged by the Avars, who sack the nearby city of Salona. The population flee to the walled palace which is able to hold out[3]
Britain
- Battle of Bampton: King Cynegils of Wessex defeats the invading Britons in Dumnonia (modern Devon). They use the Roman road eastward from Exeter to Dorchester and are intercepted by the West Saxons marching south.[4]
By topic
Religion
- The Sudarium of Oviedo is taken from Palestine after the invasion of the Sassanid Persians.
Births
- Aisha, wife of Muhammad (or 613)
- Eanswith, Anglo-Saxon princess (approximate date)
- Fujiwara no Kamatari, founder of the Fujiwara clan[5] (d. 669)
- Hilda of Whitby, abbess and saint (approximate date)
- Li Yifu, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 666)
- Rictrude, Frankish abbess (approximate date)
- Xue Rengui, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 683)
Deaths
- January 13 – Mungo, Brythonic apostle and saint
- Philippicus, Byzantine general (approximate date)
References
- ↑ Alan Harding, "Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State", (Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 14
- ↑ S. Wise Bauer, "The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade", W.W. Norton & Company, 2010), p. 251
- ↑ The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century (1991), John V.A. Fine, Jr, p. 34. ISBN 0-472-08149-7
- ↑ John Morris (1995) "The Age of Arthur", p. 307. ISBN 1-84212-477-3
- ↑ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1962). "Sovereign and Subject", p. 216–220