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General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*

• Deaths: Byzantine Emperor Maurice

Asia

• China: Disasterous floods in Yellow River (Huang Ho) basin – river changes course

Europe

• Eastern Europe: Slavic tribes begin settlement of Balkans
• England: St. Augustine of Canterbury establishes the archiepiscopal See of Canterbury

Middle East

• Babylon: End of Lakhmid kingdom in Iraq – taken over by Sassanids who kill leaders
• Eastern Roman Empire: Death of Byzantine Emperor Maurice at the hand of Phocas his successor (revolution)