600 facts for kids
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
Decades: | 570s 580s 590s – 600s – 610s 620s 630s |
Years: | 597 598 599 – 600 – 601 602 603 |
600 was a common year of the Gregorian calendar.
Contents
Events
- The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people.
- Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time.
- King Ingvar of Sweden invades Estonia but is killed by the locals.
- Juchau Anglo-Saxon tribesmen arrive in England.
- The Persians begin to use windmills for irrigation.
- Chaturanga is played in India.
- Loma Caldera in El Salvador erupts.
- The Hopewell culture of North America becomes less popular.
- The Aztec city of Teotihuacán begins to get unstable.
- The moldboard plow is invented in eastern Europe.
- Pope Gregory I writes what comes to be known as Gregorian chant.
- The building on the monastery of St. Catherine is begun on Mount Sinai.
- Irish missionaries pray in Scotland and Germany.
- Chinese-influenced sculptures of Buddha begin to be created in Japan.
- Sumatra, Java, and the surrounding islands are changed to believe inBuddhism.
- Augustine of Canterbury changes Ethelbert of Kent's religion to Christianity (approximate date).
- Nubian rulers become Christian (approximate date).
Births
- Ali Ben Abu Talib, the fourth caliph of Islam
- Candrakirti, Indian Madhyamaka philosopher
Deaths
- 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
Images for kids
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Eastern hemisphere (600 AD)
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Byzantine Empire (600 AD)
See also
In Spanish: 600 para niños
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