609
This article is about the year 609. For the number, see 609 (number). For other uses, see 609 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 570s 580s 590s – 600s – 610s 620s 630s |
| Years: | 606 607 608 – 609 – 610 611 612 |
| 609 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 609 DCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1362 |
| Armenian calendar | 58 ԹՎ ԾԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5359 |
| Bengali calendar | 16 |
| Berber calendar | 1559 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1153 |
| Burmese calendar | −29 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6117–6118 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3305 or 3245 — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3306 or 3246 |
| Coptic calendar | 325–326 |
| Discordian calendar | 1775 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 601–602 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4369–4370 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 665–666 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 531–532 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3710–3711 |
| Holocene calendar | 10609 |
| Iranian calendar | 13 BP – 12 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 13 BH – 12 BH |
| Japanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 609 DCIX |
| Korean calendar | 2942 |
| Minguo calendar | 1303 before ROC 民前1303年 |
| Seleucid era | 920/921 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1151–1152 |
The course of the Grand Canal (China)
Year 609 (DCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 609 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
- Nicetas, cousin of future emperor Heraclius, launches an overland invasion in Egypt. He defeats a Byzantine army under Bonus (comes Orientis) outside Alexandria, send from Constantinople.
Persia
- Battle of Dhi Qar: Arab tribesmen of Bakr ibn Wa'il defeat a Persian force (5,000 men) at a watering place near Kufa (Southern Iraq).
Asia
- Emperor Yángdi completes the Grand Canal, it provides an unbroken inland ship transport between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. The canal network is 1,776 km (1,400 miles) long—linking five river systems—and extends from Beijing to the city of Hangzhou.
- The Sui Dynasty government records a tax census of roughly 9 million registered households in the Chinese Empire, a population size of roughly 50 million people.
- Shibi Khan becomes the ninth ruler (khagan) of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate (approximate date).
By topic
Religion
- May 13 – The Pantheon in Rome is consecrated as "St. Mary and the Martyrs" (informally known as "Santa Maria Rotonda") by pope Boniface IV (or 610).[1]
Births
- Audoin, bishop of Rouen (d. 686)
- Hafsa bint Umar, wife of Muhammad (approximate date)
Deaths
- Venantius Fortunatus, Latin poet and bishop (or 600)
- Yang Lihua, empress of Northern Zhou (b. 561)
- Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma, Arabian poet (approx.)
References
- ↑ MacDonald 1976, p. 18
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