Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 611 A.D. through 620 A.D.
- 611 to 620
- Harsha of Thanesar (see 606) takes the title of Emperor
of the Five Indies (612)
- About this time Arnulf, counselor of Chlothar II,
becomes Bishop of Metz; his wife enters a convent; his
son marries the daughter of Chlothar's mayor of the
palace, Pepin of Landen (612)
- Northumbrians under Ethelfrit defeat Britons near Chester
(613)
- Austrasia and Burgundy united by Chlothar II (613)
- The Persians take Damascus and Jerusalem (614), and take as
booty the Holy Cross (won back by the Byzantines in 628)
- The Edictum Chlotacharii defines the rights of king,
nobles, and church (614)
- Agilulf, king of the Lombards, who introduced Christianity
to his people, d. 615
- Anglians reach the Irish; massacre of the monks of Bangor
(615)
- Persians overrun Egypt (616)
- Kent passes to Wessex (616)
- Adalwald becomes king of the Lombards (616 - 626)
- Each of the three parts of the kingdom of the Franks,
Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgundy, has a mayor
(mojordomus), who presides over the royal court--usually
called mayor of the palace (618)
- End of the Sui dynasty in China (see 581); from now on
the T'ang dynasty rules the country (618 - 907)
- The Persians in Egypt, Jerusalem, and Damascus and at the
Hellespont (619)
- The Isle of Man annexed by the kingdom of Northumbria (620)
- The Northmen invade Ireland (620)
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