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[[File:Grand-Canal.png|upright=1.35|thumb|The course of the [[Grand Canal (China)|Grand Canal]] ([[China]])]]
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Year '''609''' ('''[[Roman numerals|DCIX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. The denomination 609 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 ====
* [[Nicetas (cousin of Heraclius)|Nicetas]], cousin of future emperor [[Heraclius]], launches an overland invasion in [[Egypt (Roman province)|Egypt]]. He defeats a [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] army under [[Bonus (Sirmium)|Bonus]] (''[[Diocese of the East|comes Orientis]]'') outside [[Alexandria]], sent from [[Constantinople]].

==== Persia ====
* [[Battle of Dhi Qar]]: [[Tribes of Arabia|Arab tribesmen]] of [[Banu Bakr|Bakr ibn Wa'il]] defeat a [[Sassanid Empire|Persian]] force (5,000 men), at a watering place near [[Kufa]] (Southern [[Iraq]]).

==== Asia ====
* Emperor [[Emperor Yang of Sui|Yángdi]] completes the [[Grand Canal (China)|Grand Canal]]; it provides an unbroken inland ship [[transport]] between the [[Yellow River|Yellow]] and [[Yangtze River|Yangtze]] rivers. The [[canal]] network is 1,776 km (1,400 miles) long—linking five river systems—and extends from [[Beijing]] to the city of [[Hangzhou]].  
* The [[Sui dynasty]] government records a tax [[census]] of roughly 9 million registered [[household]]s in the [[Mid-Imperial China|Chinese Empire]], a population size of roughly 50 million people.
* [[Shibi Khan]] becomes the ninth ruler (''[[khagan]]'') of the [[Göktürks|Eastern Turkic Khaganate]] (approximate date).

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* [[May 13]] &ndash; The [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] in [[Rome]] is consecrated as [[Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri|"St. Mary and the Martyrs"]] (informally known as "Santa Maria Rotonda") by [[Pope Boniface IV]] (or [[610]]).<ref name="macDonald 1976 p=18">{{Harvnb|MacDonald|1976|p=18}}</ref>
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* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Muhammad]] claims to have received what was to become the first [[wahy]] of [[Islam]].

== Births ==
* [[Audoin (bishop)|Audoin]], [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen|bishop of Rouen]] (d. [[686]])
* [[Hafsa bint Umar]], wife of [[Muhammad]] (approximate date)

== Deaths ==
* [[Qamishoʿ]], [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syriac Orthodox]] [[Maphrian|Grand Metropolitan of the East]].<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Wilmshurst| first=David |date=2019|chapter=West Syrian patriarchs and maphrians|title=The Syriac World|publisher=Routledge|pages=806–813|editor1=Daniel King}}</ref>
* [[Venantius Fortunatus]], [[Latin]] poet and [[bishop]] (or [[600]])
* [[Yang Lihua]], empress of [[Northern Zhou]] (b. [[561]])
* [[Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma]], Arabian [[poet]] (approx.)

== References ==
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==Sources==
* {{cite book |last=MacDonald|first = William L.|title=The Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny |url=https://archive.org/details/pantheondesignme0000macd|url-access=registration|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, MA|year=1976|isbn=0-674-01019-1}}


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