Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

• Summer - Maurice agrees to Khosrau's entreaties, and agrees to restart the war with Persia.

Europe

• Owain mab Urien becomes king of Rheged (approximate date).

Asia

• January 6 — Hormizd IV deposed as Persian king.
• February 15 — Khosrau II is crowned as king of Persia.
• February 20 — Bahram Chobin and Khosrau confront each other near Ctesiphon.
• February 28 — Bahram attacks Khosrau at night; Khosrau flees for Circesium the next day.
• March 9 — Bahram Chobin is crowned as King Bahram VI of Persia.
• Kadungon succeeds Avani Culamani as ruler of the Pandyan kingdom in India.

By Topic

Religion

• September 3 — Pope Gregory I succeeds Pope Pelagius II as the 64th pope.
• Saint Columbanus arrives in Gaul, founds the monastery of Luxeuil.

Births

• Jajang Yulsa, a monk in Silla
• Khalid ibn al-Walid

Deaths

• February 7 — Pope Pelagius II
• February — Hormizd IV, Persian king
• September 5 — Authari, king of the Lombards
• Saint Blane, Scottish saint