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Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Maurice decides to end the annual tribute to the Avars, a mounted people who have swept across Russia and threatened the Balkan Peninsula. They capture the cities of Singidunum and Viminacium.

  Europe

• King Liuvigild lays siege to Seville, and forms an alliance with the Byzantines. He summons his rebellious son Hermenegild back to Toledo, and forces him to abandon the Chalcedonian Faith.
• The city of Monemvasia is founded by people seeking refuge from the Slavs and Avars.
• Eboric succeeds his father Miro as king of the Suevi.

  Arabia

• Muhammad, age 12, accompanies his uncle Abu Talib during trading journeys to Syria.

  Mesoamerica

• Yohl Ik'nal succeeds Kan B'alam I as queen of the Maya city of Palenque.

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Medicine

• Smallpox begins spreading from China to Japan and Korea.