614

This article is about the year 614. For the number, see 614 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	580s  590s  600s  – 610s –  620s  630s  640s
Years:	611 612 613 – 614 – 615 616 617

614 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

614 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	614 DCXIV
Ab urbe condita	1367
Armenian calendar	63 ԹՎ ԿԳ
Assyrian calendar	5364
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	536–537
- Kali Yuga	3715–3716
Holocene calendar	10614
Iranian calendar	8 BP – 7 BP
Islamic calendar	8 BH – 7 BH
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	614 DCXIV
Korean calendar	2947
Minguo calendar	1298 before ROC 民前1298年
Seleucid era	925/926 AG
Thai solar calendar	1156–1157

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)

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.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Byzantine–Sassanid War: A Persian-Jewish army (26,000 men) by Shahrbaraz captures and sack 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 defend the rights of the Frankish nobles and the church, and regulating appointment of counts (secular officials in charge of law courts, collecting taxes, and assembling contingents for the army) while it exclude Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom.
• The Palace of Diocletian in Split (Croatia) is damaged by the Avars, who sack the nearby city of Salona. The population flee to the walled palace which is able to hold out

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.

By topic

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 (d. 669)
• Hilda of Whitby, abbess and saint (approximate date)
• Li Yifu, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 666)
• Rictrude, Frankish abbess (approximate date)
• Xue Rengui, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 683)

Deaths

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