620

Year 620 (DCXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 620 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 617
  • 618
  • 619
  • 620
  • 621
  • 622
  • 623
620 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar620
DCXX
Ab urbe condita1373
Armenian calendar69
ԹՎ ԿԹ
Assyrian calendar5370
Balinese saka calendar541–542
Bengali calendar27
Berber calendar1570
Buddhist calendar1164
Burmese calendar−18
Byzantine calendar6128–6129
Chinese calendar己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
3316 or 3256
     to 
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
3317 or 3257
Coptic calendar336–337
Discordian calendar1786
Ethiopian calendar612–613
Hebrew calendar4380–4381
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat676–677
 - Shaka Samvat541–542
 - Kali Yuga3720–3721
Holocene calendar10620
Iranian calendar2 BP – 1 BP
Islamic calendar2 BH – 1 BH
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar510–511
Julian calendar620
DCXX
Korean calendar2953
Minguo calendar1292 before ROC
民前1292年
Nanakshahi calendar−848
Seleucid era931/932 AG
Thai solar calendar1162–1163
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
746 or 365 or −407
     to 
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
747 or 366 or −406
The Sasanian Empire ca. 620

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

  • Byzantine–Sassanid War: King Khosrau II captures Ancyra, an important Byzantine military base in central Anatolia. After the conquest of Egypt and Palestine, he restores the Persian Empire as it existed in 490 BC under Darius I.
  • The Slavs invade the area around Thessaloniki, which is unsuccessfully besieged. The city becomes a Byzantine enclave surrounded by Slavic territory. Urban life disappears and many towns in the Balkan Peninsula become villages.[1]

Britain

Asia

America

  • The town of Cholula is founded in central Mexico (later said to be the oldest continuously occupied town in all of North America).

By topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

gollark: WHY would it come to their attention?
gollark: So its ONLY property is that the foundation can't contain it?
gollark: Apollyon means "it will destroy everything ææææææææææææææ", although it seems to be disliked now.
gollark: Keter means "it can be contained but it's hard".
gollark: Or just "uncontainable".

References

  1. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century (1991), John V.A. Fine, Jr, p. 36. ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3
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