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