600

600 (AD) was a leap year beginning on Friday of the Julian calendar, in effect on that date.

It is the year 600 of the Common Era, the anno Domini and the first millennium, the hundredth and last year of the sixth century, and the first year of the 600s.

Events

• The landfill plow is invented in Eastern Europe.
• Gregorio Magno - as Pope Gregory I- develops Gregorian chanting.
• The Earth's population exceeds 200 million.
• The smallpox comes to Europe for the first time.
• The Irish monks preach in Scotland and Germany.
• In Japan, statues of Buddha Gautama began to be built by Chinese influence.
• The future Indonesia becomes Buddhism.
• Destruction of Joya de Cerén in El Salvador.

Births

• Ali Ibn Abi Talib, fourth caliph of Islam.
• Christian religious hymnate, holy.

Deaths

• Venantius Fortunatus Latin poet.
• Bayan I, king of the coves.