602

602 (DCII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 602nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 602nd year of the 1st millennium, the 2nd year of the 7th century, and the 3rd year of the 600s decade. As of the start of 602, the Gregorian calendar was 3 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	570s  580s  590s  – 600s –  610s  620s  630s
Years:	599 600 601 – 602 – 603 604 605

602 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	602 DCII
Ab urbe condita	1355
Armenian calendar	51 ԹՎ ԾԱ
Assyrian calendar	5352
Balinese saka calendar	523–524
Bengali calendar	9
Berber calendar	1552
Buddhist calendar	1146
Burmese calendar	−36
Byzantine calendar	6110–6111
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3298 or 3238     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3299 or 3239
Coptic calendar	318–319
Discordian calendar	1768
Ethiopian calendar	594–595
Hebrew calendar	4362–4363
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	658–659
- Shaka Samvat	523–524
- Kali Yuga	3702–3703
Holocene calendar	10602
Iranian calendar	20 BP – 19 BP
Islamic calendar	21 BH – 20 BH
Japanese calendar	N/A
Javanese calendar	491–492
Julian calendar	602 DCII
Korean calendar	2935
Minguo calendar	1310 before ROC 民前1310年
Nanakshahi calendar	−866
Seleucid era	913/914 AG
Thai solar calendar	1144–1145
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 728 or 347 or −425     — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 729 or 348 or −424

Events

• A series of wars begin between the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanid Empire.

Births

• Li Chunfeng
• Liu Rengui
• Mu'awiyah, who started the Umayyad Dynasty of caliphs (approximate date)
• Xuanzang, famous Chinese Buddhist monk
• Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 690)
• Taejong muyeol of Silla, 29th King of Silla(Korean of ancient kingdom, B.C 57 – A.D 935)
• Zhiyan

Deaths

• Empress Dugu Qieluo