628

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

Events

• Epidemic plague in Syria.
• Mohammed enunciates the principles of the Islamic faith.
• Visigothic Hispania: the south-eastern area of the peninsula, dominated by the Byzantines, is integrated into the visigothic state after the expulsion of troops from the Eastern Empire.
• Mexicas founded the city of Culiacán.

Deaths

• Teodolinda, Queen of Lombards (n. c. 570).