7th century

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The 7th century is the period from 601 - 700 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Events 3 Significant persons 4 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 5 Decades and years

Overview

Events

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• The Unknown Archont leads the Serbs to the Balkans from the north.
• The Roman-Persian Wars end.
• Islam starts in Arabia, the Qur'an is documented.
• Sutton Hoo ship burial, East Anglia (modern England)
• Xuan Zang (aka Hsuan-Tsang) travelled from China to India, before returning to Chang An in China to translate Buddhist scriptures.
• End of sporadic Buddhist rule in the Sindh.
• Serbs and Croats entered their present territory early in the 7th century AD, settling in six distinct tribal delimitations, and setting up early states.
• Teotihuacan is sacked and burnt.
• The religion of Shugendo evolves from Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto and other influences in the mountains of Japan.
• The Bulgars arrive in the Balkans.
• Arab traders penetrate the area of Lake Chad.
• First English poetry
• Library of Alexandria destroyed again
• Tang Dynasty of China

Significant persons

• The Unknown Archont, led the Serbs to the Balkans from the north.
• Antara Ibn Shaddad, Arab poet
• Brahmagupta, Indian mathematician
• Gregory the Great (Pope, 540-604)
• Saint Cuthbert
• Heraclius - Warrior Emperor of Byzantium who won numerous victories against the Sassanids (Persians).
• Emperor Taizong of Tang China
• Muhammad (570-632), Muslim Prophet
• Ali ibn Abi Talib (600-661), cousin of Muhammad, central to Shi'a Islam
• Saint Asaph'
• Umar, second caliph of Islam
• Asparuh - Khan of the Bulgars

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• The stirrup introduced to Persia from China, late 7th century
• Earliest known record of the game Chatrang, predecessor to Chess

Decades and years

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