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

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* Spring &ndash; Emperor [[Maurice (emperor)|Maurice]] rejects a peace proposal of the [[Persian people|Persians]], in exchange for renewed payments in [[gold]].<ref>{{harvnb|Greatrex|Lieu|2002|p=168}}; {{harvnb|Whitby|Whitby|1986|pp=41–43}}</ref>
* [[Battle of Solachon]]: A [[Byzantine army]] under command of [[Philippicus (comes excubitorum)|Philippicus]] defeats the [[Sassanid Empire|Sassanid Persians]], near [[Dara (Mesopotamia)|Dara]].
* The [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]] besiege [[Thessaloniki|Thessalonica]] ([[Central Macedonia]]), the second city of the [[Byzantine Empire]].<ref>History of the Byzantine Empire from DCCXVI to MLVII, George Finlay, p. 316</ref>
* The [[Vlachs]] are first mentioned in a Byzantine chronicle (approximate date).

==== Europe ====
* [[April 21]] &ndash; King [[Liuvigild]] dies at [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]] after an 18-year reign, and is succeeded by his second son [[Reccared I]].
* [[Slavs]] advance to the gates of [[Thessaloniki]] and the [[Peloponnese]].
* [[Pannonian Avars|Avars]] destroy a lien of Roman camps along the [[Danubian Limes]], including [[Colonia Ulpia Oescus|Oescus]] and [[Ratiaria]].

=== By topic ===

==== Art ====
* The Page with the [[Crucifixion of Jesus|Crucifixion]], from the "[[Rabbula Gospels]]", at the Monastery of St. John in Beth Zagba ([[Syria]]), is completed. It is now kept at the [[Laurentian Library|Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana]], [[Florence]], [[Italy]].

==== Religion ====
* Japanese [[Buddhism in Japan|Buddhism]] comes under attack as a "foreign" religion.
* [[Comgall|Saint Comgall]] founds an [[abbey]] in [[Bangor, County Down|Bangor, Northern Ireland]].
* King [[List of kings of Dumnonia#Dumnonian kings|Custennin]] of [[Dumnonia]] is converted to [[Christianity]].
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