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Calendar year
Year
628
(
DCXXVIII
) was a
leap year starting on Friday
(link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar
. The denomination 628 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.
Events
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By place
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Byzantine Empire
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- Spring –
Byzantine?Sassanid War
: Emperor
Heraclius
issues an ultimatum for peace to King
Khosrow II
, but he refuses his generous terms. The war-weary Persians revolt against Khosrow's regime at
Ctesiphon
, and install his son
Kavadh II
on the throne on February 25. He puts his father to death and begins negotiations with Heraclius. Kavadh is forced to return all the territories conquered during the war. The Persians must give up all of the trophies they have captured, including the relic of the
True Cross
. Evidently there is also a large financial
indemnity
. Having accepted a peace agreement on his own terms, Heraclius returns in triumph to
Constantinople
.
- Third Perso-Turkic War
: The
Western Gokturks
, under their leader
Tong Yabghu Qaghan
, plunder
Tbilisi
(modern
Georgia
). The Persian defenders are executed or mutilated; Tong Yabghu appoints governors (
tuduns
) to manage various tribes under his overlordship.
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Britain
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Central America
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Persia
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Arabia
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By topic
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Arts and sciences
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Education
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- The
Sharia
enjoins women as well as men to obtain secular and religious educations. It forbids eating
pork
, domesticated
donkey
, and other flesh denied to Jews by
Mosaic law
(approximate date).
Religion
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Births
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Deaths
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- January 22
–
Anastasius of Persia
, monk
- February 28
–
Khosrow II
, king of the Persian Empire
- April 15
–
Empress Suiko
of Japan
- June 3
–
Liang Shidu
, rebel leader
- Babai the Great
, church father and
theologian
- Du Yan
, chancellor of the Tang dynasty
- Kavadh II
, king of the
Sasanian Empire
- Li Dashi
, Chinese official and historian (b.
570
)
- Shirin
, wife of Khosrow II (approximate date)
- Suibne Menn
,
High King of Ireland
- Theodelinda
, queen of the
Lombards
- Tong Yabghu Qaghan
, ruler of the
Gokturks
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