614

Year 614 (DCXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 614 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century 7th century 8th century
Decades:	590s 600s 610s 620s 630s
Years:	611 612 613 614 615 616 617

614 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	614 DCXIV
Ab urbe condita	1367
Armenian calendar	63 ԹՎ ԿԳ
Assyrian calendar	5364
Balinese saka calendar	535–536
Bengali calendar	21
Berber calendar	1564
Buddhist calendar	1158
Burmese calendar	−24
Byzantine calendar	6122–6123
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3310 or 3250     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3311 or 3251
Coptic calendar	330–331
Discordian calendar	1780
Ethiopian calendar	606–607
Hebrew calendar	4374–4375
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	670–671
- Shaka Samvat	535–536
- Kali Yuga	3714–3715
Holocene calendar	10614
Iranian calendar	8 BP – 7 BP
Islamic calendar	8 BH – 7 BH
Japanese calendar	N/A
Javanese calendar	504–505
Julian calendar	614 DCXIV
Korean calendar	2947
Minguo calendar	1298 before ROC 民前1298年
Nanakshahi calendar	−854
Seleucid era	925/926 AG
Thai solar calendar	1156–1157
Tibetan calendar	阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 740 or 359 or −413     — to — 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 741 or 360 or −412

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)

Events

Byzantine Empire

• Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628:
  • The Levantine cities of Caesarea Maritima, Arsuf, and Tiberias surrender on terms to the Sasanians.[1]
  • Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem: A Persian–Jewish army (26,000 men) commanded by Shahrbaraz captures and sacks Jerusalem, after a 20-day siege. Somewhere between 57,000 and 66,500 citizens are slain; another 35,000 are enslaved, including the Patriarch Zacharias. Many churches in the city (including the "Church of the Resurrection" or Holy Sepulchre) are burned, and numerous relics, including the True Cross, the Holy Lance, and the Holy Sponge, are carried off to the Persian capital Ctesiphon.
• The Persians destroy the Ghassanid Kingdom (Arabia), a vassal state of the Byzantine Empire (approximate date).

Europe

• October 18 – King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defends the rights of the Frankish nobles and the church, and regulates the appointment of counts (secular officials in charge of law courts, collecting taxes, and assembling contingents for the army), while it excludes Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom.[2][3]
• The Palace of Diocletian in Split (Croatia) is damaged by the Avars, who sack the nearby city of Salona. The population flees to the walled palace, which is able to hold out.[4]

Britain

• Battle of Bampton: King Cynegils of Wessex defeats the invading Britons in Dumnonia (modern Devon). They use the Roman road eastward from Exeter to Dorchester, and are intercepted by the West Saxons marching south.[5]

Religion

• The Sudarium of Oviedo is taken from Palestine, after the invasion of the Sassanid Persians.

Other

• First year that didn't happen, according to the phantom time hypothesis.

Births

• Aisha, wife of Muhammad (or 613)
• Eanswith, Anglo-Saxon princess (approximate date)
• Fujiwara no Kamatari, founder of the Fujiwara clan[6] (d. 669)
• Hilda of Whitby, abbess and saint (approximate date)
• Li Yifu, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 666)
• Rictrude, Frankish abbess (approximate date)
• General Xue Rengui of the Tang dynasty (d. 683)

Deaths

• January 13 – Mungo, Brythonic apostle and saint
• Philippicus, Byzantine general (approximate date)
• Queen Sado

References

1. Crawford, Peter (2013). The War of the Three Gods: Romans, Persians and the Rise of Islam. Pen and Sword. p. 41-43. ISBN 9781473828650.
2. Alan Harding, "Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State", (Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 14
3. S. Wise Bauer, "The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade", W.W. Norton & Company, 2010), p. 251
4. Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.
5. John Morris (1995) "The Age of Arthur", p. 307. ISBN 1-84212-477-3
6. Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1962). "Sovereign and Subject", p. 216–220