Events

• Phocas kills Byzantine Emperor Maurice I and makes himself emperor
• Beginning of a series of wars between the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanids

Births

• Mu'awiyah, founder of the Umayyad Dynasty of caliphs (approximate date)
• Xuanzang, famous Chinese Buddhist monk.
• Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 690)

Deaths

• Maurice I, Eastern Roman Emperor