624

624 (DCXXIV) was a leap year beginning on a Sunday of the Julian calendar, in effect on that date.

Events

• 13 March: Battle of Badr led by Prophet Mohammed
• Last Roman-Persian War: Emperor Heraclio defeats the Sassanids during his advance in the Aras River and destroys the Zoroastrist temple of Tajt-e Soleiman.
• After 70 years of Byzantine rule, the Visigoths take the city of Carthago Spartaria (present-day Cartagena), taking full control of the Iberian peninsula.
• Japan adopts Buddhism.

Births

• Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, caliph.
• Wu Zetian, Chinese empress.

Deaths

• Austregisilo, Christian religious.
• Redvaldo de Estanglia, king of the Angloes.