605

This article is about the year 605. For the number, see 605 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	570s  580s  590s  – 600s –  610s  620s  630s
Years:	602 603 604 – 605 – 606 607 608

605 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

605 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	605 DCV
Ab urbe condita	1358
Armenian calendar	54 ԹՎ ԾԴ
Assyrian calendar	5355
Bengali calendar	12
Berber calendar	1555
Buddhist calendar	1149
Burmese calendar	−33
Byzantine calendar	6113–6114
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3301 or 3241     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3302 or 3242
Coptic calendar	321–322
Discordian calendar	1771
Ethiopian calendar	597–598
Hebrew calendar	4365–4366
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	661–662
- Shaka Samvat	527–528
- Kali Yuga	3706–3707
Holocene calendar	10605
Iranian calendar	17 BP – 16 BP
Islamic calendar	18 BH – 17 BH
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	605 DCV
Korean calendar	2938
Minguo calendar	1307 before ROC 民前1307年
Seleucid era	916/917 AG
Thai solar calendar	1147–1148

Year 605 (DCV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 605 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

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Phocas recognizes Agilulf as king of the Lombards and signs a peace treaty. He pays a tribute and cedes Orvieto (Central Italy) among other towns. The Byzantine army is withdrawn from the Balkan Peninsula.
• Phocas has Constantina, empress consort of Maurice, and her three daughters arrested. He accuses her of conspiracy and has them executed at Chalcedon (Bithynia).

Britain

• King Æthelfrith annexes the neighboring kingdom of Deira (Northern England). The region between the Forth and Humber rivers will hereafter be known as Northumbria, the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Persia

• As a result of a quarrel between the Lakhmids (Southern Iraq) and king Khosrau II, the Persian frontier with Arabia is no longer guarded (approximate date).

Asia

• Emperor Yángdi orders the capital to be transferred from Chang'an to Luoyang. He begins the construction of the Grand Canal that will link existing waterways to the new Chinese capital. Built by a million laborers.
• Yángdi introduces an imperial examination, designed to select the best administrative officials (after they received the jinshi) for the state. Beginning of a long bureaucratic tradition of scholar-officialdom in China.
• The Zhaozhou Bridge is completed under the Sui Dynasty, the earliest known fully stone open-spandrel segmental arch bridge in the world. Although the earlier Roman Trajan's Bridge featured segmental arches.
• Amshuvarma becomes king of the Licchavi in Nepal. He is credited for opening trade routes to Tibet. His ruling period is known as the "Golden Period".

Mesoamerica

• Aj Ne' Yohl Mat becomes ruler (ajaw) of the Maya city of Palenque (Mexico). During his reign his kingdom is invaded by people from Calakmul.

Births

• Chlodulf, bishop of Metz
• Colmán, bishop of Lindisfarne (approximate date)
• Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad (approximate date)
• Gōngdi, last emperor of the Sui Dynasty (d. 619)
• Sisenand, king of the Visigoths (approximate date)
• Yang Tong, emperor of the Sui Dynasty (d. 619)

Deaths

• Alexander of Tralles, physician (approximate date)
• May 26 – Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury (or 604)
• Brandub mac Echach, king of Uí Ceinnselaig (Ireland)
• Constantina, Byzantine empress (approximate date)
• Damian, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria