609

Calendar year

This article is about the year 609. For other uses, see 609 (disambiguation).

Calendar year

Years

Millennium
1st millennium
Centuries

* 6th century
* 7th century
* 8th century

Decades

* 580s
* 590s
* 600s
* 610s
* 620s

Years

* 606
* 607
* 608
* 609
* 610
* 611
* 612

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Leaders

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609 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 609
DCIX

|

Ab urbe condita| 1362
Armenian calendar| 58
ԹՎ ԾԸ
Assyrian calendar| 5359
Balinese saka calendar| 530–531
Bengali calendar| 15–16
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| ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Earth-Dragon)
735 or 354 or −418
— to —
ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Earth-Snake)
736 or 355 or −417
The course of the Grand Canal (China)

Year 609 (DCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday 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.

## Events

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### By place

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#### Byzantine Empire

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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).

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#### Religion

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* 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.

## Births

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* Audoin, bishop of Rouen (d. 686)
* Hafsa bint Umar, wife of Muhammad (approximate date)

## Deaths

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* 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.)

## References

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1. ^ MacDonald 1976, p. 18
2. ^ Wilmshurst, David (2019). "West Syrian patriarchs and maphrians". In Daniel King (ed.). The Syriac World. Routledge. pp. 806–813.

## Sources

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* MacDonald, William L. (1976). The Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01019-1.

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