602

Year 602 (DCII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 602 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.

602 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	602 DCII
Ab urbe condita	1355
Armenian calendar	51 ԹՎ ԾԱ
Assyrian calendar	5352
Balinese saka calendar	523–524
Bengali calendar	8–9
Berber calendar	1552
Buddhist calendar	1146
Burmese calendar	−36
Byzantine calendar	6110–6111
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3299 or 3092     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3300 or 3093
Coptic calendar	318–319
Discordian calendar	1768
Ethiopian calendar	594–595
Hebrew calendar	4362–4363
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	658–659
- Shaka Samvat	523–524
- Kali Yuga	3702–3703
Holocene calendar	10602
Iranian calendar	20 BP – 19 BP
Islamic calendar	21 BH – 20 BH
Japanese calendar	N/A
Javanese calendar	491–492
Julian calendar	602 DCII
Korean calendar	2935
Minguo calendar	1310 before ROC 民前1310年
Nanakshahi calendar	−866
Seleucid era	913/914 AG
Thai solar calendar	1144–1145
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Bird) 728 or 347 or −425     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 729 or 348 or −424

The Byzantine and Persian Empire (7th century)

Emperor Phocas in consular robe (602–610)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Maurice succeeds in winning over the Avars to Byzantine rule, but his campaigns against the Avars, Lombards, Persians and Slavs drain the imperial treasury, requiring an increase in taxes. He orders the troops to stay for winter beyond the Danube, but a mutiny breaks out under Phocas. He brings the Byzantine forces back over the Danube and marches on to Constantinople.^[1]
• November 27 – A civil war breaks out and Phocas enters Constantinople. Maurice is captured trying to escape; he is forced to witness the slaughter of his five sons and all his supporters, and is then executed (beheaded) after a 20-year reign. His wife, Constantina, and his three daughters are spared, and sent to a monastery. Phocas is proclaimed the new emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• Byzantine–Persian War: King Khosrau II launches an offensive against Constantinople, to avenge Maurice's death, his "friend and father", and tries to reconquer Byzantine territory. Narses, governor of Upper Mesopotamia, rebels against Phocas at the city of Edessa and requests aid from the Persians. Khosrau sends an expeditionary force to Armenia and crosses the Euphrates.

Europe

• Spring – Witteric is appointed commander-in-chief of the Visigoth army, and receives orders from King Liuva II to expel the Byzantines from Hispania.

Persia

• Khosrau II annexes the Lakhmid Kingdom (Southern Iraq), and puts king Nu'man III to death.

Asia

• Third Chinese domination of Vietnam: The Early Lý dynasty ends; Hậu Lý Nam Đế, last ruler of Vąn Xuân (North Vietnam), abdicates the throne and becomes a vassal of the Sui dynasty.
• 602 Surb Karapet Monastery earthquake. It affected the Surb Karapet Monastery, located in the district of Taron.^[2]

By topic

Religion

• Augustine of Canterbury meets with the Welsh bishops at Aust near Chepstow. He accuses them of not adopting the Roman Christian way of dating Easter, and persuades them to accept the teaching of baptism (according to the Roman Rite).^[3]

Births

• Adaloald, king of the Lombards (d. 626)
• Li Chunfeng, Chinese mathematician and historian (d. 670)
• Liu Rengui, general and official of the Tang dynasty (d. 685)
• Muawiyah I, founder of the Umayyad Caliphate (d. 680)
• Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 690)
• Xuanzang, Chinese Buddhist monk and traveler (d. 664)
• Zhiyan, Chinese (Buddhist) patriarch (d. 668)
• Muawiyah bin Abi-Sufyan, Caliph of Syria (d. 680)

Deaths

• September 10 – Dugu Qieluo, empress of the Chinese Sui dynasty (b. 544)
• November 27 – Maurice, Byzantine emperor (b. 539)
• Nu'man III, king of the Lakhmids
• Ariulf, Lombard duke of Spoleto
• Bayan I, ruler (khagan) of the Avars
• Comentiolus, Byzantine general (magister militum)
• Peter, Byzantine general (curopalates)
• Theodosius, Byzantine co-emperor
• Tiberius, Byzantine prince
• Lady Xian, Chinese general (b. 512)^[4]