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609
Calendar year
Year 609 (DCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) 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.
This article is about the year 609. For other uses, see 609 (disambiguation).
Quick Facts
| Gregorian calendar | 609 DCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1362 |
| Armenian calendar | 58 ԹՎ ԾԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5359 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 530–531 |
| Bengali calendar | 16 |
| Berber calendar | 1559 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1153 |
| Burmese calendar | −29 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6117–6118 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3306 or 3099 — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3307 or 3100 |
| Coptic calendar | 325–326 |
| Discordian calendar | 1775 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 601–602 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4369–4370 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 665–666 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 530–531 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3709–3710 |
| Holocene calendar | 10609 |
| Iranian calendar | 13 BP – 12 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 13 BH – 12 BH |
| Japanese calendar | N/A |
| Javanese calendar | 498–499 |
| Julian calendar | 609 DCIX |
| Korean calendar | 2942 |
| Minguo calendar | 1303 before ROC 民前1303年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −859 |
| Seleucid era | 920/921 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1151–1152 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 735 or 354 or −418 — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 736 or 355 or −417 |
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By place
Byzantine Empire
- Nicetas, cousin of future emperor Heraclius, launches an overland invasion in Egypt. He defeats a Byzantine army under Bonus (comes Orientis) outside Alexandria, sent from Constantinople.
Persia
- Battle of Dhi Qar: Arab tribesmen of Bakr ibn Wa'il defeat a Persian force (5,000 men), at a watering place near Kufa (Southern Iraq).
Asia
- Emperor Yángdi completes the Grand Canal; it provides an unbroken inland ship transport between the Yellow and 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 households in the Chinese Empire, a population size of roughly 50 million people.
- Shibi Khan becomes the ninth ruler (khagan) of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate (approximate date).
By topic
Religion
- May 13 – The Pantheon in Rome is consecrated as "St. Mary and the Martyrs" (informally known as "Santa Maria Rotonda") by Pope Boniface IV (or 610).[1]
- December 22 – Muhammad claims to have received what was to become the first wahy of Islam.
- Audoin, bishop of Rouen (d. 686)
- Hafsa bint Umar, wife of Muhammad (approximate date)
- Qamishoʿ, Syriac Orthodox Grand Metropolitan of the East.[2]
- Venantius Fortunatus, Latin poet and bishop (or 600)
- Yang Lihua, empress of Northern Zhou (b. 561)
- Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma, Arabian poet (approx.)
- MacDonald 1976, p. 18
- Wilmshurst, David (2019). "West Syrian patriarchs and maphrians". In Daniel King (ed.). The Syriac World. Routledge. pp. 806–813.
- MacDonald, William L. (1976). The Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01019-1.