General
Population: Between 190 and 230 million*
- Religion: Damascus becomes capital of caliphs
Koran finished - several editions exisst
- Deaths: Isdore of Seville
Asia
- China: Chinese emperor T'ai Tsung receives Nestorian Christian missionaries
- India: Rock temple of Rathas in S India built
Unsuccessful invasion of the land of the Chalukyas by Harsha Kingdom in south Asia
Europe
- England: Christianization of Wessex
- Spanish States: Death of Isdore of Seville
Middle East
- General: Muslims begin conquest of Syria and Persia
- Palestine: Moslems capture Gaza
- Syria: Damascus becomes capital of caliphs