613

Year 613 (DCXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 613 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:
613 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar613
DCXIII
Ab urbe condita1366
Armenian calendar62
ԹՎ ԿԲ
Assyrian calendar5363
Balinese saka calendar534–535
Bengali calendar20
Berber calendar1563
Buddhist calendar1157
Burmese calendar−25
Byzantine calendar6121–6122
Chinese calendar壬申年 (Water Monkey)
3309 or 3249
     to 
癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
3310 or 3250
Coptic calendar329–330
Discordian calendar1779
Ethiopian calendar605–606
Hebrew calendar4373–4374
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat669–670
 - Shaka Samvat534–535
 - Kali Yuga3713–3714
Holocene calendar10613
Iranian calendar9 BP – 8 BP
Islamic calendar9 BH – 8 BH
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar503–504
Julian calendar613
DCXIII
Korean calendar2946
Minguo calendar1299 before ROC
民前1299年
Nanakshahi calendar−855
Seleucid era924/925 AG
Thai solar calendar1155–1156
Tibetan calendar阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
739 or 358 or −414
     to 
阴水鸡年
(female Water-Rooster)
740 or 359 or −413
Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia is executed

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Emperor Heraclius marries his niece Martina; she becomes empress (Augusta) of the Byzantine Empire. This second marriage is considered to fall within the prohibited degree of kinship, and is approved by the Catholic Church in Constantinople.
  • January 22 Constantine is crowned co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius and shortly after betrothed to his cousin, Gregoria, daughter of Nicetas. Only 8 months old, Constantine has no real power and his dynastic title is purely ceremonial.
  • Byzantine–Persian War: Heraclius appoints himself commander-in-chief, along with his brother Theodore (curopalates), to solidify command of the army.[1]
  • Battle of Antioch: Heraclius mobilises a Byzantine expeditionary force to Antioch (Syria), but is completely defeated outside the city by the Persians. Shahin Vahmanzadegan makes further inroads into Central and Western Anatolia.[2] In Syria, Shahrbaraz captures the cities of Damascus, Apamea and Emesa.

Europe

  • King Theuderic II dies of dysentery in the Austrasian capital of Metz, while preparing a campaign against his longtime enemy, Chlothar II. His grandmother Brunhilda attempts to establish a third regency for her illegitimate great-grandson Sigebert II.
  • Chlothar II reunites the Frankish Kingdom by ordering the murder of Sigebert II. He accuses Brunhilda, age 70, of killing ten kings of the Franks (according to the Liber Historiae Francorum). She is dragged to death behind a wild horse at Abbeville.

Britain

Asia

  • Goguryeo–Sui War: Emperor Yángdi crosses the Liao River again, and puts Manchuria under siege. During the campaign Yang Xuangan, an official of the Sui dynasty, starts a rebellion near Luoyang. Fearing attacks from two fronts, Yángdi is forced to retreat his army.
  • Isanapura becomes the capital of the Cambodian kingdom of Chenla (approximate date).

Religion

  • Islam: Muhammad begins preaching in public. He spreads the message of Islam and encourages a personal devotion to God. Quraysh leaders of Mecca oppose any change in the traditional tribal and religious customs.

Births

Deaths

  • April 22 Saint Theodore of Sykeon, Byzantine ascetic
  • Bledric ap Custennin, king of Dumnonia (England)
  • Brunhilda, queen of Austrasia
  • Priscus, Byzantine general
  • Sigebert II, king of Austrasia
  • Theuderic II, king of Austrasia
  • Uncelen, Duke of Alemannia (Germany)
  • Yang Xuangan, official of the Sui dynasty

References

  1. Walter Emil Kaegi (2003), Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium, Cambridge University Press, p. 75. ISBN 0-521-81459-6
  2. Foss 1975.
  3. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (E) records this battle under the year 605, but this is considered incorrect; see Michael Swanton's translation of the ASC (1996, 1998, paperback), page 23, note 2. Between 613/616 is the generally accepted date, as first proposed by Charles Plummer, Venerabilis Beda Opera Historica (1896)

Sources

  • Foss, Clive (October 1975), "The Persians in Asia Minor and the End of Antiquity", The English Historical Review, 90 (357): 721–747, doi:10.1093/ehr/XC.CCCLVII.721, JSTOR 567292
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