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[[File:Byzantine and Sassanid Empires in 600 CE.png|upright=1.35|thumb|The [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] and [[Sassanid Empire|Persian Empire]] (7th century)]]
[[File:Phocas cons.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|Emperor [[Phocas]] in [[consul]]ar robe (602–610)]]
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Year '''602''' ('''[[Roman numerals|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.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* Emperor [[Maurice (emperor)|Maurice]] succeeds in winning over the [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]] to Byzantine rule, but his campaigns against the Avars, [[Lombards]], Persians and [[Slavs]] drain the imperial treasury, requiring an increase in [[tax]]es. 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]].<ref>{{The Early Medieval Balkans|page= 33}}</ref>  
* [[November 27]] &ndash; 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 (empress)|Constantina]], and his three daughters are spared, and sent to a [[monastery]]. Phocas is proclaimed the new emperor of the [[Byzantine Empire]].
* [[Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628#Beginning of the conflict|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 (magister militum per Orientem)|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 &ndash; [[Witteric]] is appointed commander-in-chief of the [[Visigoths|Visigoth]] army, and receives orders from King [[Liuva II]] to expel the [[Byzantine Greeks|Byzantines]] from [[Hispania]].

==== Persia ====
* Khosrau II annexes the [[Lakhmids|Lakhmid Kingdom]] (Southern [[Iraq]]), and puts king [[Al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir|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 (historic Armenia)|Taron]].<ref name="Guidoboni">Guidoboni, Traina, 1995, p. 118</ref>

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* [[Augustine of Canterbury]] meets with the [[Wales|Welsh]] bishops at [[Aust]] near [[Chepstow]]. He accuses them of not adopting the Roman [[Christians|Christian]] way of dating [[Easter]], and persuades them to accept the teaching of [[baptism]] (according to the [[Roman Rite]]).<ref>The "Latin Library". Ad Fontes Academy, (2008)</ref>  
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== Births ==
* [[Adaloald]], king of the [[Lombards]] (d. [[626]])
* [[Li Chunfeng]], Chinese [[Chinese mathematics|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 [[Chinese Buddhism|Buddhist]] monk and traveler (d. [[664]])
* [[Zhiyan]], Chinese (Buddhist) patriarch (d. [[668]])
* [[Muawiyah bin Abi-Sufyan]], Caliph of Syria (d. [[680]])

== Deaths ==
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Dugu Qieluo]], empress of the Chinese [[Sui dynasty]] (b. [[544]])
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Maurice (emperor)|Maurice]], Byzantine emperor (b. [[539]])
* [[Al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir|Nu'man III]], king of the [[Lakhmids]]
* [[Ariulf of Spoleto|Ariulf]], Lombard [[duke of Spoleto]]
* [[Bayan I]], ruler (''[[khagan]]'') of the [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]]
* [[Comentiolus]], Byzantine general (''[[magister militum]]'')
* [[Peter (curopalates)|Peter]], Byzantine general (''[[curopalates]]'')
* [[Theodosius (son of Maurice)|Theodosius]], Byzantine co-emperor
* [[Tiberius (son of Maurice)|Tiberius]], Byzantine prince
* [[Lady Xian]], Chinese general (b. [[512]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wade |first1=Geoff |title=Asian Expansions: The Historical Experiences of Polity Expansion in Asia |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781135043537 |page=77 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GXXZBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA77|language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
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==Sources==
* {{citation | last1=Guidoboni | first1= Emanuela | last2=Traina | first2= Giusto| title=A new catalogue of earthquakes in the historical Armenian area from antiquity to the 12th century | year=1995 | journal=Annals of Geophysics | volume= 38 | doi= 10.4401/ag-4134 | url =https://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/4134| doi-access=free }}

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