Roman Empire
7th Century (601-700 A.D.)


Last update: Aug 31, 2007

Year

Event

602-610:

Phocas: kills Maurice, becomes Byzantine emperor

604-606-607-615:

Popes Sabinian, Boniface III, Boniface IV; author. by Phocas

606:

standard examinations for public office in China

609:

Roman Pantheon (a Pagan Temple) renamed Church of Santa Maria Rotonda

610-641:

Heraclius: kills Phocas, becomes Byzantine emperor

610:

Muhammad's vision on Mount Hira

614:

Persians take Damascus and Jerusalem and "Holy Cross of Christ"

615:

earliest records of some of Muhammad's teachings

615-618:

Pope Deusdedit

616:

Persians take Egypt

618-907:

T'ang dynasty of China

619-625:

Pope Boniface V: authorized by Heraclius

619:

"Suan-Ching", ten classics, textbooks used for Chinese exams (606)

622:

first year in Muslim calendar, The Hegira, 1a.h., (a.h. = anno hegirae)

622-680:

Monothelite controversy: condemned at 6th Ecum. Council of Const.

624:

Muhammad marries Aisha, daughter of Abu Bekr

625-638:

Pope Honorius I

625:

Paulinus of Rome comes to convert Northumbria to Christianity

625:

Muhammad begins dictation of Qur'an (Koran) to his scribe

625:

Brahmagupta, mathematician of India, teaches at Ujjain

626:

King Edwin of Northumbria founds Edinburgh and begins Christianization

627:

Byzantines defeat Persians at Nineveh, discover Indian sugar cane

628:

Emperor Heraclius wins back "Cross of Christ" from Persians (614)

628:

Muhammad captures Mecca & writes to rulers of the world explaining Islam

629:

Heraclius recovers Jerusalem from Persians

629:

Pope Honorius I sides with Emperor Heraclius and Monothelites (622)

632:

East Anglia Christianized

632:

Muhammad, b. 570?, Arab prophet and founder of Islam

632:

Abu Bekr, first Islamic Caliph, seat at Medina

634:

Omar I, 2d Caliph, takes Syria/Persia/Egypt;defeats Heraclius in Holy War

635:

Christianization of Wessex

635-750:

Damascus becomes capital of Islamic Caliphs

636:

Southern Irish Church submits to Roman Catholicism

637:

Jerusalem captured by Islam

638:

Emp. Heraclius' "Ecthesis", decrees Christ of one nature: "Monothelites"

640:

Pope Severinus

640:

Library of Alexandria, "The Center of Western Culture," with 300,000 ancient papyrus scrolls, is completely destroyed.