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Contents

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

Asia

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

★ The Avars attack Constantinople.

Asia

★ Second Perso-Turkic War

★ The Meccan boycott of Hashemites and Muhammad ends.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

★ The calculation of the Chinese calendar begins to use true motions of the sun and moon modeled using two offset opposing parabolas.

★ The Chinese begin using large orchestras.

Religion

★ December 23 — Pope Boniface V succeeds Pope Adeodatus I as the 69th pope.

★ Mellitus becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.

★ Kubrat, ruler of the Bulgars, is baptised in Constantinople.

Births

★ Li Chengqian, crown prince of Emperor Taizong of Tang China

Deaths

★ 3 February — Laurence, Archbishop of Canterbury

★ St. John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria (possible date)

★ Abu Talib, uncle of Islamic Prophet Muhammad

★ Khadija, wife of Islamic Prophet Muhammad

★ Liu Wenjing, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (born 568)

★ Li Mi, Chinese rebel against the Sui Dynasty, served briefly as a Tang Dynasty official (born 582)