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Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

Asia

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

★ Byzantine Emperor Heraclius invades Persia

Asia

★ May 28 — Battle of Hulao, Li Shimin defeats numerically superior army of Dou Jiande.

★ June 4 — Wang Shichong surrenders to Li Shimin following Dou Jiande's defeat

By Topic

Religion

★ Muhammad is said to have visited heaven aboard the steed/unicorn with wings or Buraq, in the ''Isra wal-Miraj'', (the Night Journey), from Mecca and then to heaven from Jerusalem 's Temple Mount, then back to Mecca.

★ Year '1' of the Islamic calendar, the year that Islam began.

★ Year 666 (disambiguation) of the Roman Julian calendar which was in use at the time Christianity's Book of Revelation was written. (In Christianity, 666 is also known as the Number of the Beast.)

Births

★ Ardashir III, King of Persia

Deaths

★ Sisebut, king of the Visigoths

★ Dou Jiande, warlord and opponent of Li Yuan

★ Wang Shichong, warlord and opponent of Li Yuan

★ Dou Kang, Chinese general and briefly a chancellor of the Tang Dynasty