610
This article is about the year 610. For the number, see 610 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 580s 590s 600s – 610s – 620s 630s 640s |
| Years: | 607 608 609 – 610 – 611 612 613 |
| 610 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 610 DCX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1363 |
| Armenian calendar | 59 ԹՎ ԾԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5360 |
| Bengali calendar | 17 |
| Berber calendar | 1560 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1154 |
| Burmese calendar | −28 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6118–6119 |
| Chinese calendar | 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3306 or 3246 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3307 or 3247 |
| Coptic calendar | 326–327 |
| Discordian calendar | 1776 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 602–603 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4370–4371 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 666–667 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 532–533 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3711–3712 |
| Holocene calendar | 10610 |
| Iranian calendar | 12 BP – 11 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 12 BH – 11 BH |
| Japanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 610 DCX |
| Korean calendar | 2943 |
| Minguo calendar | 1302 before ROC 民前1302年 |
| Seleucid era | 921/922 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1152–1153 |
Emperor Heraclius (610–641)
Year 610 (DCX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 610 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
- October 4 – Heraclius arrives with a fleet from Africa at Constantinople. Assisted by an uprising in the capital, he overthrows and personally beheads emperor Phocas. Heraclius gains the throne with help from his father Heraclius the Elder. His first major act is to change the official language of the Eastern Roman Empire from Latin to Greek (already the language of the vast majority of the population). Because of this, after AD 610 the Empire is customarily referred to as the Byzantine Empire (the term Byzantine is a modern term invented by historians in the 18th century; the people of the Empire itself always referred to themselves as "Ρωμιούς" – in English, Romious).
Europe
- The Avars invade the Duchy of Friuli, an important buffer between the Kingdom of the Lombards in Italy and the Slavs.[1] During the fightings Gisulf II dies and his duchy is overrun (approximate date).
- King Witteric is assassinated during a banquet at Toledo by a faction of Catholic nobles. He is succeeded by Gundemar, duke of Narbonne, who becomes king of the Visigoths in Hispania.[2]
- King Theuderic II loses Alsace, Champagne and Thurgau to his elder brother Theudebert II of Austrasia. His Burgundian army is defeated east of the Jura Mountains against the Alemanni.
- The Volga Bulgaria arises in Russia being the first civilisation in the region to avert from the Early Slavs (approximate date).
Britain
- Selyf ap Cynan succeeds his father Cynan Garwyn as king of Powys (Wales).
By topic
Arts and sciences
- Paper technology is imported into Japan from China by the Korean Buddhist priest, Dam Jing (approximate date).
Religion
- Muhammad, Islamic prophet, begins secretly at 40 years old to preach a new religion that will be called Islam. According to Islamic teachings, the angel Gabriel appears to him in a cave on Mount Hira near Mecca (Saudi Arabia) and calls him: "The Prophet of Allah". Muhammad gathers followers, reciting to him the first verses of surat Iqra (al-`Alaq), thus beginning the revelation of the Qur'an.[3]
- Pope Boniface IV presides over a Council of Rome for the restoration of monastic discipline. Attendees include Mellitus, first bishop of London.[4]
- Columbanus and Gallus begin their missionary work in Bregenz near Lake Constance (Switzerland).[5]
- John V (the Merciful) becomes patriarch of Alexandria (approximate date).
Births
- Anania Shirakatsi, Armenian astronomer (d. 685)
- Barbatus, bishop of Benevento (approximate date)
- Ergica, king of the Visigoths (approximate date)
- Grimoald I, king of the Lombards (approximate date)
- Lai Ji, official of the Tang dynasty (d. 662)
- Nanthild, Frankish queen (approximate date)
- Safiyya bint Huyayy, wife of Muhammad (approximate date)
Deaths
- Gisulf II, Lombard duke of Friuli (approximate date)
- Heraclius the Elder, Byzantine general
- Phocas, Byzantine emperor
- Tassilo I, King of Bavaria (b. 560)
- Waraka ibn Nawfal, cousin of Muhammad
- Witteric, king of the Visigoths
References
- ↑ Thomas Hodgkin, Italy and Her Invaders' (vol. 5), p. 160
- ↑ Isidore, chapter 58; translated by Guido Donini and Gordon B. Ford, p. 27
- ↑ Essential Histories: The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632–750 (2009), David Nicolle, p. 22. ISBN 978-1-84603-273-8
- ↑ Brooks "Mellitus (d. 624)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ↑ Edmonds, Columba (1908) "St. Columbanus". The Catholic Encyclopedia 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved 15 January 2013
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