610

Year 610 (DCX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link

Millennium: 1st millennium
will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 610th year
of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, Centuries: 6th century ·
the 610th year of the 1st millennium, the 10th year of the 7th 7th century ·
century, and the 1st year of the 610s decade. The denomination 8th century
610 for this year has been used since the early medieval period,
Decades: 590s · 600s · 610s ·
when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method
620s · 630s
in Europe for naming years.
Years: 607 · 608 · 609 · 610
· 611 · 612 · 613
Events
610 in various calendars
By place Gregorian 610
calendar DCX

Byzantine Empire Ab urbe condita 1363

Armenian 59
October 4 – Heraclian revolt: Heraclius arrives with a
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fleet from Africa at Constantinople. Assisted by an
uprising in the capital, he overthrows and personally Assyrian 5360
beheads Emperor Phocas. Heraclius gains the throne calendar
with help from his father Heraclius the Elder. His first
major act is to change the official language of the Balinese saka 531–532
Eastern Roman Empire from Latin to Greek (already the calendar
language of the vast majority of the population). Bengali calendar 17
Because of this, after AD 610, the Empire is customarily
referred to as the Byzantine Empire (the term Byzantine Berber calendar 1560
is a modern term invented by historians in the 18th Buddhist 1154
century; the people of the Empire itself always referred calendar
to themselves as "Ρωμαῖος" — tr. Rōmaios, Roman).
Burmese −28
calendar
Europe
Byzantine 6118–6119
The Avars invade the Duchy of Friuli, an important buffer calendar
between the Kingdom of the Lombards in Italy and the
Slavs.[1] During the fighting Gisulf II dies and his duchy
Chinese 己巳年
calendar (Earth Snake)
is overrun (approximate date).
3306 or 3246
King Witteric is assassinated during a banquet at
— to —
Toledo, by a faction of Catholic nobles. He is succeeded
by Gundemar, duke of Narbonne, who becomes king of 庚午年
the Visigoths in Hispania.[2] (Metal Horse)
King Theuderic II loses Alsace, Champagne and 3307 or 3247
Thurgau to his elder brother Theudebert II of Austrasia. Coptic calendar 326–327
His Burgundian army is defeated east of the Jura
Discordian 1776
Mountains against the Alemanni.
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甲⾠2024年庚午6⽉⼄⺒10⽇
The Volga Bulgaria arises on the territory of modern Ethiopian 602–603
Russia, being the first civilization in the region to arise calendar
from the Early Slavs (approximate date).
Hebrew calendar 4370–4371
Hindu calendars
Britain
- Vikram 666–667
Selyf ap Cynan succeeds his father Cynan Garwyn as Samvat
king of Powys (Wales).
- Shaka Samvat 531–532
- Kali Yuga 3710–3711
By topic Holocene 10610
calendar
Arts and sciences Iranian calendar 12 BP – 11 BP

Paper technology is imported into Japan from China by Islamic calendar 12 BH – 11 BH

the Korean Buddhist priest, Dam Jing (approximate Japanese N/A
date).
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Javanese 499–501
Religion calendar

Muhammad, Islamic prophet, begins at 40 years old to Julian calendar 610

preach a religion which will be called Islam. According DCX
to Islamic teachings, the angel Gabriel appears to him in Korean calendar 2943
a cave on Mount Hira near Mecca (Saudi Arabia) and
calls him: "The Prophet of Allah". Muhammad gathers Minguo calendar 1302 before
followers, reciting to them the first verses of Qur'an(Iqra), ROC
thus beginning the revelation of the Qur'an.[3] 民前
1302 年
Pope Boniface IV presides over a Council of Rome for Nanakshahi −858
the restoration of monastic discipline. Attendees include
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Mellitus, first bishop of London.[4]
Columbanus and Gallus begin their missionary work in Seleucid era 921/922 AG
Bregenz, near Lake Constance (Switzerland).[5] Thai solar 1152–1153
John V (the Merciful) becomes patriarch of Alexandria calendar
(approximate date). Tibetan calendar 阴土蛇年
(female Earth-
Births Snake)
736 or 355 or
Anania Shirakatsi, Armenian astronomer (d. 685) −417
Barbatus, bishop of Benevento (approximate date) — to —
Ergica, king of the Visigoths (approximate date) 阳金马年
Grimoald, King of the Lombards (approximate date) (male Iron-
Lai Ji, official of the Tang dynasty (d. 662) Horse)
Nanthild, Frankish queen (approximate date) 737 or 356 or
Safiyya bint Huyayy, wife of Muhammad (approximate −416
date)

Deaths
October 5 – Phocas, Byzantine emperor
Gisulf II, Lombard duke of Friuli (approximate
date)
Heraclius the Elder, Byzantine general
Tassilo I, King of Bavaria (b. 560)
Waraka ibn Nawfal, the paternal first cousin of
Khadija, the first wife of the Islamic prophet
Muhammad.
Witteric, king of the Visigoths
Emperor Heraclius (610–641)

References
1. Hodgkin, Thomas. Italy and Her Invaders (vol. 5), p. 160
2. Donini, Guido and Ford, Gordon B., Jr., translators (1966). Isidore of Seville's History of the
Kings of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi. Leiden: E. J. Brill. Chapter 58, p. 27
3. Essential Histories: The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632–750 (2009), David Nicolle, p. 22.
ISBN 978-1-84603-273-8
4. Brooks "Mellitus (d. 624)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
5. Edmonds, Columba (1908) "St. Columbanus". The Catholic Encyclopedia 4. New York:
Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved 15 January 2013

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