Culture & Society in the 7th century

49 sourced entries, 600 CE to 698 CE, oldest first. Also see Culture & Society across every century or everything else in the 7th century.

• 600600-900 - Cylindrical vessel is made. Maya culture. It is now kept at the Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey.source
• 600The Hopewell tradition (North America) ceases to be the dominant culture (approximate date).source
• 600600-750 - Maguey Bloodletting Ritual, fragment of a fresco from Teotihuacan, Mexico, is made. Teotihuacan culture. It is now kept at the Cleveland Museum of Art.source
• 600Possibly the first reference to chess is made in the Persian work Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan.source
• 601The Qieyun, a Chinese character rhyme dictionary, is published.source
• 613Emperor Heraclius marries his niece Martina; she becomes empress (Augusta) of the Byzantine Empire. This second marriage is considered to fall within the prohibited degree of kinship, and is approved by the Catholic Church in Constantinople.source
• 615Edwin of Northumbria takes refuge in East Anglia; he marries Cwenburga, daughter of king Cearl of Mercia (according to the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum).source
• 616Adaloald, age 14, succeeds his father Agilulf as Lombard king of Italy. He reigns under his mother Theodelinda as regent. The Lombard Kingdom gradually begins to convert to Catholicism, and establishes peace with the Exarchate of the Byzantine Empire.source
• 619The Chinese begin using large orchestras.source
• 625King Edwin of Northumbria marries Æthelburga of Kent. As a Christian, she brings her personal chaplain, Paulinus, and encourages her husband to convert to Christianity.source
• 626Edinburgh (Scotland) is founded by Edwin of Northumbria (approximate date).source
• 627St Peter's School, York, is founded by Paulinus.source
• 629September 14 – Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph. In a ceremonial parade, accompanied by the True Cross, he is welcomed by the citizens and his son Heraclius Constantine.source
• 632Seondeok is crowned queen of Silla (Korea).source
• 635Judicaël, high king of Domnonée (Brittany), visits King Dagobert I at his palace in Clichy (northwest of Paris), to promise he will remain under Frankish lordship. The Breton king arrives with gifts, but insults Dagobert by refusing to eat at the royal table.source
• 635Yao Silian, Chinese historian, completes his Book of Liang. It contains the history of the Liang dynasty.source
• 638March 22 – Year 0 of the Burmese calendar, based on the Chula Sakarat, is also used in the mainland of Southeast Asia.source
• 638July 4 – Heraklonas, age 12, son of Heraclius, obtains (through the influence of his mother Martina) the title of Augustus. This brings him in rivalry with his elder half-brother Constantine.source
• 638The Tibetan Empire, seeking an alliance through marriage with Tang dynasty China, launches an attack on Songzhou that is repelled by Chinese forces, but is followed by the marriage of the Chinese Princess Wencheng to Tibetan ruler Songtsän Gampo.source
• 642Empress Kōgyoku ascends to the throne of Japan, after her husband (and uncle) Emperor Jomei's death in 641.source
• 642Oswiu succeeds his half-brother Oswald as king of Bernicia. He strengthens his position by marrying Eanflæd, daughter of King Edwin of Northumbria, then in exile in the Kingdom of Kent. This marriage takes place between 642 and 644.source
• 642Emperor Constans II marries Fausta.source
• 643A Chinese embassy is sent to the North Indian Empire. They are invited by Emperor Harsha, who holds a Buddhist convocation at the capital Kannauj, which is attended by 20 kings and thousands of pilgrims.source
• 650King Cloten of Dyfed (Southern Wales) marries Princess Ceindrech of Brycheiniog, and unites the two kingdoms (approximate date).source
• 651King Clovis II of Neustria and Burgundy marries Balthild, said to be an Anglo-Saxon aristocrat sold into slavery in Gaul. She has been owned by Clovis' mayor of the palace, Erchinoald, who gives her to him to garner royal favour (approximate date).source
• 659March 17 – Gertrude of Nivelles, daughter of Pepin of Landen (mayor of the palace of Austrasia), requests on her deathbed a burial wearing a plain linen shroud. This is the traditional (pagan) practice of a 'furnished' grave.source
• 661King Munmu becomes the 30th ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla.source
• 663June 5 – In China, the Daming Palace becomes the government seat and royal residence of Emperor Gao Zong of the Tang dynasty.source
• 670A family register, Kogo-nenjaku, is prepared in Japan (approximate date) [Significance of this event is unclear] .source
• 673March 20 – Emperor Tenmu assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan at the Palace of Kiyomihara, in Asuka.source
• 674In Japan, Princess Ōku proceeds to the Ise Jingu.source
• 67525-year-old poet Wang Bo (王勃) writes Tengwang Ge Xu, to celebrate the Tengwang Pavilion (approximate date).source
• 676Cuthbert of Lindisfarne retires to a hermitage near Holburn, at a place now known as St. Cuthbert's Cave.source
• 676Emperor Tenmu of Japan promulgates a decree about taxes from fiefs, and the employment of persons for the service from the outer provinces. Men of distinguished ability are allowed to enter the service, even though they are of the common people, regardless of their ranks.source
• 678April 27 – Emperor Tenmu holds divination for the purpose of proceeding to the Abstinence Palace.source
• 679King Æthelred of Mercia marries Princess Osthryth, sister of King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (approximate date).source
• 680Pippin of Herstal becomes Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia.source
• 681Kusakabe, second son of Tenmu, is made crown prince.source
• 682Emperor Tenmu issues a decree forbidding the Japanese-style cap of ranks and garments, and changing them into Chinese ones. He also makes a decree forbidding men to wear leggings and women to let down their hair on their backs. It is from this time, that the practice begins of women riding on horseback like men. He issues an edict prescribing the character of ceremonies and language to be used on occasions of ceremony. Ceremonial kneeling and crawling are both abolished, and the ceremonial custom of standing at the Tang court is practiced.source
• 683Approximate date – The sarcophagus lid in the tomb of K'inich Janaab' Pakal (Shield 2), Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque, Mexico (Maya culture) is made.source
• 683Prince Ōtsu, son of Tenmu, starts to attend to matters of State at about this time.source
• 684November 13 – Emperor Tenmu institutes eight titles of eight classes (Yakusa-no-kabane) in Japan.source
• 693May 31 – Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Chaak is installed as the new ruler of the Mayan city state of Naranjo in Guatemala at the age of 5-years-old, under the regency of his mother, Wak Chanil Ajaw (Lady Six Sky) of Dos Pilas, and reigns until his death in 720.source
• 695Pepin institutes his son Drogo as mayor of the palace of Burgundy. His younger son Grimoald II becomes mayor of the palace of Neustria.source
• 695Willibrord establishes a Benedictine training centre for priests and young noblemen. This seminary later becomes Utrecht University.source
• 695King Aldfrith of Northumbria marries Princess Cuthburh, sister of King Ine of Wessex (approximate date).source
• 697A festival, for the opening of the eyes of Buddhist images, is held in Yakushi-ji Temple in Japan (approximate date).source
• 698Probable date of Cuthbert's burial behind the altar at Lindisfarne (approximate date).source
• 698The festival of first-fruits (Daijo-sai) is held in Japan.source