602

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