602

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Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

* Maurice, at war with the Avars and always dealing with the lack of money, decrees that the army should stay for winter beyond the Danube, which proves to be a serious mistake. The exhausted troops mutiny against the Emperor. Phocas kills Maurice and declares himself emperor.
* A series of wars begin between the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanid Empire.

Births

* Li Chunfeng
* Liu Rengui
* Mu'awiyah, founder of the Umayyad Dynasty of caliphs (approximate date)
* Xuanzang, famous Chinese Buddhist monk
* Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 690)
* Zhiyan

Deaths

* Empress Dugu Qieluo