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| align="center" style="vertical-align:middle;" | }}} }}} }}} }}} }}} }}} }}} |- style="background-color:#f3f3f3" | align="right" | Centuries: | align="center" | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |- | align="right" | Decades: | align="center" | 570s 580s 590s 600s 610s 620s 630s |- style="background-color:#f3f3f3" | align="right" | Years: | align="center" | 597 598 599 600 601 602 603

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.

The Americas

Loma Caldera in El Salvador erupts, burying the Mayan village, Joya de Cerén known as the Pompeii of the Americas.
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

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