600

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	570s  580s  590s  – 600s –  610s  620s  630s
Years:	597 598 599 – 600 – 601 602 603

600 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	600 DC
Ab urbe condita	1353
Armenian calendar	49 ԹՎ ԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	5350
Balinese saka calendar	521–522
Bengali calendar	7
Berber calendar	1550
Buddhist calendar	1144
Burmese calendar	−38
Byzantine calendar	6108–6109
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 3296 or 3236     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3297 or 3237
Coptic calendar	316–317
Discordian calendar	1766
Ethiopian calendar	592–593
Hebrew calendar	4360–4361
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	656–657
- Shaka Samvat	521–522
- Kali Yuga	3700–3701
Holocene calendar	10600
Iranian calendar	22 BP – 21 BP
Islamic calendar	23 BH – 22 BH
Japanese calendar	N/A
Javanese calendar	489–490
Julian calendar	600 DC
Korean calendar	2933
Minguo calendar	1312 before ROC 民前1312年
Nanakshahi calendar	−868
Seleucid era	911/912 AG
Thai solar calendar	1142–1143
Tibetan calendar	阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 726 or 345 or −427     — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 727 or 346 or −426

600 (DC) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 600th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 600th year of the 1st millennium, the 100th and last year of the 6th century, and the 1st year of the 600s decade. As of the start of 600, the Gregorian calendar was 2 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people.
• Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time.
• King Ingvar of Sweden invades Estonia but is killed by the locals.
• Juchau Anglo-Saxon tribesmen arrive in England.
• The Persians begin to use windmills for irrigation.
• Chaturanga is played in India.
• Loma Caldera in El Salvador erupts.
• The Hopewell culture of North America becomes less popular.
• The Aztec city of Teotihuacán begins to get unstable.
• The moldboard plow is invented in eastern Europe.
• Pope Gregory I writes what comes to be known as Gregorian chant.
• The building on the monastery of St. Catherine is begun on Mount Sinai.
• Irish missionaries pray in Scotland and Germany.
• Chinese-influenced sculptures of Buddha begin to be created in Japan.
• Sumatra, Java, and the surrounding islands are changed to believe inBuddhism.
• Augustine of Canterbury changes Ethelbert of Kent's religion 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