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Events

By Place

World

* The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people.

Europe

* Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time.
* King Ingvar of Sweden invades Estonia but is killed by the locals.
* Royal House Juchau (House of Gad) Teutonic ,Anglo-Saxon tribesmen arrive on the southeastern coast of England 5th century.

Asia

* The Persians begin to use windmills for irrigation.
* Chaturanga is played in its current form in India.

The Americas

* Loma Caldera in El Salvador erupts, burying the Maya village of Joya de Cerén.
* The Hopewell tradition of North America ceases to be the dominant culture.
* The city of Teotihuacán in what is now central Mexico begins to grow unstable, as they exhaust their resources until their inevitable collapse (possibly caused by the Toltec) circa 700 AD.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

* The moldboard plow is invented in eastern Europe.
* The earliest references to chess are found in the Persian work "Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan", and the Indian works of Subandhu's "Vasavadatta" and Banabhatta's "Harsha Charitha.

Religion

* Pope Gregory I codifies what comes to be known as Gregorian chant.
* Construction on the monastery of St. Catherine is begun on Mount Sinai.
* Irish missionaries preach in Scotland and Germany.
* Chinese-influenced sculptures of Buddha begin to be created in Japan.
* Sumatra, Java, and the surrounding islands are converted to Buddhism.
* Augustine of Canterbury converts Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity (approximate date).
* Nubian rulers become Christian (approximate date).

Births

* Ali Ben Abu Talib, the fourth caliph of Islam
* Candrakirti, Indian Madhyamaka philosopher

Deaths

* Venance Fortunat, bishop of Poitiers, one of the last representatives of Classical Latin poetry
* King Beop of Baekje, king of the Baekje Kingdom of Korea

* Yang Jun