604

Year 604 (DCIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 604 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
604 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar604
DCIV
Ab urbe condita1357
Armenian calendar53
ԹՎ ԾԳ
Assyrian calendar5354
Balinese saka calendar525–526
Bengali calendar11
Berber calendar1554
Buddhist calendar1148
Burmese calendar−34
Byzantine calendar6112–6113
Chinese calendar癸亥年 (Water Pig)
3300 or 3240
     to 
甲子年 (Wood Rat)
3301 or 3241
Coptic calendar320–321
Discordian calendar1770
Ethiopian calendar596–597
Hebrew calendar4364–4365
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat660–661
 - Shaka Samvat525–526
 - Kali Yuga3704–3705
Holocene calendar10604
Iranian calendar18 BP – 17 BP
Islamic calendar19 BH – 18 BH
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar493–494
Julian calendar604
DCIV
Korean calendar2937
Minguo calendar1308 before ROC
民前1308年
Nanakshahi calendar−864
Seleucid era915/916 AG
Thai solar calendar1146–1147
Tibetan calendar阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
730 or 349 or −423
     to 
阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
731 or 350 or −422
Emperor Yángdi of the Sui Dynasty (569–618)

Events

Byzantine Empire

Europe

  • Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia conspires to have Berthoald, Mayor of the Palace, assassinated. She convinces King Theuderic II to send him to inspect the royal villae along the Seine. Brunhilda then has the noblemen who actually carried out the murder arrested and killed.
  • December 25 Battle of Ėtampes: Theuderic II, with the aid of Berthoald, defeats the Frankish forces under King Chlothar II of Neustria, at Étampes (near Paris).

Britain

  • Æthelfrith of Northumbria invades Deira and kills its king, Æthelric.[3] Prince Edwin, son of the late king Ælla of Deira (possibly a nephew of Æthelric), flees to the court of King Iago of Gwynedd (northwest Wales).
  • Sæbert succeeds his father Sledd as king of Essex. He is persuaded to convert to Christianity through the intervention of his uncle, King Æthelberht of Kent.[4]

Asia

Religion

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 33. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.
  2. Essential Histories: Rome at War AD 293–696 (2002), Michael Whitby, p. 60. ISBN 1-84176-359-4
  3. Bede, "Historia Ecclesiastica", I.34, III.6; "Historia Brittonum", chapter 61
  4. Geoffrey Hindley, A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: "The beginnings of the English nation" New York: Carrol & Graf Publishers (2006), p. 33–36. ISBN 978-0-7867-1738-5
  5. W.G. Aston, trans., Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, 2 vols. in 1 (London: Keagan and Co., 1896), vol. 2, p. 128–133
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