7th century
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| Centuries: | 6th century - 7th century - 8th century |
| Decades: | 600s 610s 620s 630s 640s 650s 660s 670s 680s 690s |
The 7th century is the period from 601 - 700 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.
Contents
Overview
Events
The first surah in a handwritten copy of the Qur'an.
- The Unknown Archont leads the Serbs to the Balkans from the north.
- The Roman-Persian Wars end.
- Islam starts in Arabia, the Qur'an is documented.
- Sutton Hoo ship burial, East Anglia (modern England)
- Xuan Zang (aka Hsuan-Tsang) travelled from China to India, before returning to Chang An in China to translate Buddhist scriptures.
- End of sporadic Buddhist rule in the Sindh.
- Serbs and Croats entered their present territory early in the 7th century AD, settling in six distinct tribal delimitations, and setting up early states.
- Teotihuacan is sacked and burnt.
- The religion of Shugendo evolves from Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto and other influences in the mountains of Japan.
- The Bulgars arrive in the Balkans.
- Arab traders penetrate the area of Lake Chad.
- First English poetry
- Library of Alexandria destroyed again
- Tang Dynasty of China
Significant persons
- The Unknown Archont, led the Serbs to the Balkans from the north.
- Antara Ibn Shaddad, Arab poet
- Brahmagupta, Indian mathematician
- Gregory the Great (Pope, 540-604)
- Saint Cuthbert
- Heraclius - Warrior Emperor of Byzantium who won numerous victories against the Sassanids (Persians).
- Emperor Taizong of Tang China
- Muhammad (570-632), Muslim Prophet
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (600-661), cousin of Muhammad, central to Shi'a Islam
- Saint Asaph
- Umar, second caliph of Islam
- Asparuh - Khan of the Bulgars
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- The stirrup introduced to Persia from China, late 7th century
- Earliest known record of the game Chatrang, predecessor to Chess