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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
598 599 600 601 - 602 - 603 604 605 606\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
570s 580s 590s - 600s - 610s 620s 630s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
6th century - 7th century - 8th century\n|} Events\n* Phocas kills Byzantine Emperor Maurice I and makes himself emperor\n* Beginning of a series of wars between the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanids Births\n* Mu\'awiyah, founder of the Umayyad Dynasty of caliphs (approximate date)\n* Xuanzang, famous Chinese Buddhist monk.\n* Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury Deaths\n* Maurice I, Eastern Roman Emperor \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n