601

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century · 7th century · 8th century
Decades:	570s · 580s · 590s · 600s · 610s · 620s · 630s
Years:	598 · 599 · 600 · 601 · 602 · 603 · 604

601 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

601 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	601 DCI
Ab urbe condita	1354
Armenian calendar	50 ԹՎ Ծ
Assyrian calendar	5351
Bengali calendar	8
Berber calendar	1551
Buddhist calendar	1145
Burmese calendar	−37
Byzantine calendar	6109–6110
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3297 or 3237     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3298 or 3238
Coptic calendar	317–318
Discordian calendar	1767
Ethiopian calendar	593–594
Hebrew calendar	4361–4362
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	657–658
- Shaka Samvat	522–523
- Kali Yuga	3701–3702
Holocene calendar	10601
Iranian calendar	21 BP – 20 BP
Islamic calendar	22 BH – 21 BH
Japanese calendar	N/A
Javanese calendar	490–491
Julian calendar	601 DCI
Korean calendar	2934
Minguo calendar	1311 before ROC 民前1311年
Nanakshahi calendar	−867
Seleucid era	912/913 AG
Thai solar calendar	1143–1144

King Liuva II (583–603)

Year 601 (DCI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 601 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.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Balkan Campaign: A Byzantine army under command of Peter, brother of emperor Maurice, crosses the Danube and advances to the Tisza River, where it defeats the Avars.

Europe

• The Franks, Merovingians and Carolingians successively control most of Europe, while strong feudal lords rise in power to gain the allegiance of the people.
• The Lombards under King Agilulf expand into Northern Italy, establishing a settlement with the Franks and maintaining intermittent relationships with Rome.
• Liuva II, age 18,^[1] succeeds his father Reccared I as king of the Visigoths. He dies a natural death at the capital in Toledo^[2] after a 15-year reign.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• The Qieyun, a Chinese character rhyme dictionary, is published.

Agriculture

• Food production increases in northern and Western Europe as a result of agricultural technology introduced by the Slavs, who employ a lightweight plow with a knife blade (coulter), that cuts deep into the soil at grassroots level, together with a shaped board, or "moldboard", that moves the cut soil to one side.

Religion

• The future Archbishops of Canterbury (Mellitus, Justus, and Honorius), and the future Archbishop of York Paulinus, are sent to England by Pope Gregory I to aid Augustine in his missionary work. Gregory writes the decretal Libellus responsionum to Augustine.

Births

• Ali ibn Abi Talib, first Shia Imam (d. 661)
• Hongren, Chán (Buddhist) patriarch of the Tang Dynasty (d. 674)
• Ma Zhou, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 648)
• Sigebert II, king of Austrasia and Burgundy (d. 613)
• Zhangsun, empress of the Tang Dynasty (d. 636)

Deaths

• Agilulf, bishop of Metz
• Brenainn mac Cairbre, king of Uí Maine (or 597)
• March 13 – Leander, bishop of Seville (or 600)
• Reccared I, king of the Visigoths (b. 559)
• Sophia, Byzantine Empress (approximate date)

References

1. Roger Collins, "Visigothic Spain 409–711", (Blackwell Publishing,2004, p.73
2. Ann Christys, "Christians in Al-Andalus, 711–1000", p. 37 (Curzon Press, 2002). ISBN 0-7007-1564-9