605

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Phocas recognizes Agilulf as king of the Lombards, and signs a peace treaty. He pays a tribute and cedes Orvieto (Central Italy), among other towns. The Byzantine army is withdrawn from the Balkan Peninsula.
• Phocas has Constantina, empress consort of Maurice, and her three daughters arrested. He accuses her of conspiracy, and has them executed at Chalcedon (Bithynia).

Britain

• King Æthelfrith annexes the neighboring kingdom of Deira (Northern England). The region between the Forth and Humber rivers will hereafter be known as Northumbria, the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Persia

• As a result of a quarrel between the Lakhmids (Southern Iraq) and King Khosrau II, the Persian frontier with Arabia is no longer guarded (approximate date).

Asia

• Emperor Yángdi orders the capital to be transferred from Chang'an to Luoyang. He begins the construction of the Grand Canal, that will link existing waterways to the new Chinese capital; it will be built by a million laborers.
• Yángdi introduces an imperial examination, designed to select the best administrative officials (after they receive the jinshi) for the state; this begins a long bureaucratic tradition of scholar-officialdom in China.
• The Zhaozhou Bridge is completed under the Sui dynasty, the earliest known fully stone open-spandrel segmental arch bridge in the world (although the earlier Roman Trajan's Bridge featured segmental arches).
• Amshuvarma becomes king of the Licchavi in Nepal. He is credited for opening trade routes to Tibet. His ruling period is known as the "Golden Period".

Mesoamerica

• Aj Ne' Yohl Mat becomes ruler (ajaw) of the Maya city of Palenque (Mexico). During his reign his kingdom is invaded by people from Calakmul.

Births

• Chlodulf, bishop of Metz
• Colmán, bishop of Lindisfarne (approximate date)
• Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad (or 615)
• Yang You, puppet emperor of the Sui dynasty (d. 619)
• Sisenand, king of the Visigoths (approximate date)
• Songtsän Gampo, emperor of the Tibetan Empire (d. 649)
• Yang Tong, puppet emperor of the Sui dynasty (d. 619)

Deaths

• Alexander of Tralles, physician (approximate date)
• Brandub mac Echach, king of Uí Ceinnselaig (Ireland)
• Constantina, Byzantine empress (approximate date)
• Damian, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria

References

References

1. "Ajen Yohl Mat".
2. "Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens" by [[Simon Martin (Mayanist). Simon Martin]] and [[Nikolai Grube]]