600

600 was a common year of the Gregorian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	570s  580s  590s  – 600s –  610s  620s  630s
Years:	597 598 599 – 600 – 601 602 603

Events

• The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people.
• Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time.
• King Ingvar of Sweden invades Estonia but is killed by the locals.
• Juchau Anglo-Saxon tribesmen arrive in England.
• The Persians begin to use windmills for irrigation.
• Chaturanga is played in India.
• Loma Caldera in El Salvador erupts.
• The Hopewell culture of North America becomes less popular.
• The Aztec city of Teotihuacán begins to get unstable.
• The moldboard plow is invented in eastern Europe.
• Pope Gregory I writes what comes to be known as Gregorian chant.
• The building on the monastery of St. Catherine is begun on Mount Sinai.
• Irish missionaries pray in Scotland and Germany.
• Chinese-influenced sculptures of Buddha begin to be created in Japan.
• Sumatra, Java, and the surrounding islands are changed to believe inBuddhism.
• Augustine of Canterbury changes Ethelbert of Kent's religion to Christianity (approximate date).
• Nubian rulers become Christian (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
• Yang Jun