600

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For the number, see 600 (number).

Events

By Place

World

• The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people.

Europe

• Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time.

Asia

• The Persians begin to use windmills for irrigation.
• Chaturanga begins play in India.

The Americas

• Loma Caldera in El Salvador erupts, burying the Maya village, Joya de Cerén.
• The Hopewell culture of North America ceases to be the dominant culture.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

• The moldboard plow is invented in eastern Europe.
• Possibly the first reference to chess, in the Persian work Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan.

Religion

• Pope Gregory I codifies what comes to be known as Gregorian chant.
• Construction on the monastery of St. Catherine is begun on Mount Sinai.
• Irish missionaries preach in Scotland and Germany.
• Chinese-influenced sculptures of Buddha begin to be created in Japan.
• Sumatra, Java, and the surrounding islands are converted to Buddhism.
• Augustine of Canterbury converts Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity (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

5th and 6th Century Juchau Anglo-Saxon tribesmen Southeastern coast of England