600

Events

Loma Caldera in El Salvador erupts, burying the Maya village of Joya de Cerén.
The Hopewell culture of North America ceases to be the dominant culture.
The city of Teotihuacán in what is now central Mexico begins to grow unstable, as they exhaust their resources until their inevitable collapse (possibly caused by the Toltec) circa 700 AD.

The moldboard plow is invented in eastern Europe.
The earliest references to chess are found in the Persian work Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan, and the Indian works of Subandhu's Vasavadatta and Banabhatta's ''Harsha Charitha.

Pope Gregory I codifies what comes to be known as Gregorian chant.
Construction on the monastery of St. Catherine is begun on Mount Sinai.
Irish missionaries preach in Scotland and Germany.
Chinese-influenced sculptures of Buddha begin to be created in Japan.
Sumatra, Java, and the surrounding islands are converted to Buddhism.
Augustine of Canterbury converts Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity (approximate date).
Nubian rulers become Christian (approximate date).