620

This article is about the year 620. For the steam locomotive, see 6-2-0. For the film format, see 620 film.

Year 620 (DCXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The designation 620 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century 7th century 8th century
Decades:	600s 610s 620s 630s 640s
Years:	617 618 619 620 621 622 623

620 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	620 DCXX
Ab urbe condita	1373
Armenian calendar	69 ԹՎ ԿԹ
Assyrian calendar	5370
Balinese saka calendar	541–542
Bengali calendar	27
Berber calendar	1570
Buddhist calendar	1164
Burmese calendar	−18
Byzantine calendar	6128–6129
Chinese calendar	己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3317 or 3110     — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3318 or 3111
Coptic calendar	336–337
Discordian calendar	1786
Ethiopian calendar	612–613
Hebrew calendar	4380–4381
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	676–677
- Shaka Samvat	541–542
- Kali Yuga	3720–3721
Holocene calendar	10620
Iranian calendar	2 BP – 1 BP
Islamic calendar	2 BH – 1 BH
Japanese calendar	N/A
Javanese calendar	510–511
Julian calendar	620 DCXX
Korean calendar	2953
Minguo calendar	1292 before ROC 民前1292年
Nanakshahi calendar	−848
Seleucid era	931/932 AG
Thai solar calendar	1162–1163
Tibetan calendar	阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 746 or 365 or −407     — to — 阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 747 or 366 or −406

The Sasanian Empire ca. 620

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Byzantine–Sassanid War: King Khosrau II captures Ancyra, an important Byzantine military base in central Anatolia. After the conquest of Egypt and Palestine, he restores the Persian Empire as it existed in 490 BC under Darius I.
• The Slavs invade the area around Thessaloniki, which is unsuccessfully besieged. The city becomes a Byzantine enclave surrounded by Slavic territory. Urban life disappears and many towns in the Balkan Peninsula become villages.^[1]

Britain

• The Angles under King Edwin of Northumbria invade Rheged ("Old North") in Northern England, and expel King Llywarch Hen. He flees to Powys, and becomes a famous bard. Edwin's armies fight against Gododdin and Strathclyde.

Asia

• King Pulakeshin II defeats the Harsha army on the banks of the Narmada River. Harsha loses a major part of his elephant force and retreats. A truce establishes Narmada as the northern boundary of the Chalukya Kingdom (India).

America

• The town of Cholula is founded in central Mexico (later said to be the oldest continuously occupied town in all of North America).

By topic

Religion

• Weltenburg Abbey in Bavaria (Germany) is founded by Benedictine monks.
• Isra and Mi'raj (Muhammad's ascension to heaven to meet God).

Births

• Cedd, bishop of London (approximate date)

Deaths

• Basolus, Frankish missionary (approximate date)
• Chuluo Khan, ruler of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate
• Dorotheus of Gaza, monk and abbot (approximate date)
• Eleutherius, Byzantine exarch of Ravenna
• Imerius of Immertal, Swiss monk (approximate date)
• Khadija bint Khuwaylid, first wife of Muhammad
• Mirin, Irish monk and missionary (approximate date)
• Seanach Garbh, Irish abbot (approximate date)
• Shen Faxing, official of the Sui dynasty
• Sisebut, king of the Visigoths (or 621)

References

1. Fine 1991, p. 36.

Sources

• Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.