600
600 was a common year of the Gregorian calendar.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 570s 580s 590s – 600s – 610s 620s 630s |
| Years: | 597 598 599 – 600 – 601 602 603 |
| Gregorian calendar | 600 DC |
| Ab urbe condita | 1353 |
| Armenian calendar | 49 ԹՎ ԽԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5350 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 521–522 |
| Bengali calendar | 7 |
| Berber calendar | 1550 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1144 |
| Burmese calendar | −38 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6108–6109 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年 (Earth Goat) 3296 or 3236 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3297 or 3237 |
| Coptic calendar | 316–317 |
| Discordian calendar | 1766 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 592–593 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4360–4361 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 656–657 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 521–522 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3700–3701 |
| Holocene calendar | 10600 |
| Iranian calendar | 22 BP – 21 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 23 BH – 22 BH |
| Japanese calendar | N/A |
| Javanese calendar | 489–490 |
| Julian calendar | 600 DC |
| Korean calendar | 2933 |
| Minguo calendar | 1312 before ROC 民前1312年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −868 |
| Seleucid era | 911/912 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1142–1143 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 726 or 345 or −427 — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 727 or 346 or −426 |
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).
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
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