600 facts for kids

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	570s 580s 590s – 600s – 610s 620s 630s
Years:	597 598 599 – 600 – 601 602 603

600 was a common year of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people.
Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time.
King Ingvar of Sweden invades Estonia but is killed by the locals.
Juchau Anglo-Saxon tribesmen arrive in England.
The Persians begin to use windmills for irrigation.
Chaturanga is played in India.
Loma Caldera in El Salvador erupts.
The Hopewell culture of North America becomes less popular.
The Aztec city of Teotihuacán begins to get unstable.
The moldboard plow is invented in eastern Europe.
Pope Gregory I writes what comes to be known as Gregorian chant.
The building on the monastery of St. Catherine is begun on Mount Sinai.
Irish missionaries pray in Scotland and Germany.
Chinese-influenced sculptures of Buddha begin to be created in Japan.
Sumatra, Java, and the surrounding islands are changed to believe inBuddhism.
Augustine of Canterbury changes Ethelbert of Kent's religion to Christianity (approximate date).
Nubian rulers become Christian (approximate date).

Venance Fortunat, bishop of Poitiers, one of the last representatives of Classical Latin poetry
King Beop of Baekje, king of the Baekje Kingdom of Korea
Yang Jun