594

• Balkan Campaign: The Slavs invade the Byzantine provinces of Moesia and Macedonia again; during their pillaging the towns of Aquis, Scupi and ZaldapainDobruja are destroyed.^[1]
• Autumn – Emperor Maurice replaces general Priscus for disobeying orders. He installs his inexperienced brother Peter, as commander-in-chief in charge of the war against the Avars.

• Emperor Wéndi repairs and expands sections of the Great Wall in the north-west, which is undertaken by using forced labour. During the years, thousands of civilians are killed.^[2]
• Empress Suiko issues the "Flourishing Three Treasures Edict", officially recognizing the practice of Buddhism in Japan. She begins diplomatic relations with the Sui dynasty (China).

• Amos succeeds John IVasOrthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem.
• Approximate date – Pope Gregory I publishes his Dialogues.

• Kōgyoku, empress of Japan (d. 661)
• Li Shiji, general and chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 669)
• Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, companion of Muhammad (d. 656)

approximate date

• Ali ibn Abi Talib, first Shia Imam (d. 661)
• Maymuna bint al-Harith, wife of Muhammad
• Ramla bint Abi Sufyan, wife of Muhammad

• November 17 – Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian
• John IV, patriarch of Jerusalem (approximate date)