7th century

Centuries:	6th century - 7th century - 8th century
Decades:	600s 610s 620s 630s 640s 650s 660s 670s 680s 690s

The 7th century is the period from 601 - 700 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.

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The first surah in a handwritten copy of the Qur'an.

The Unknown Archont leads the Serbs to the Balkans from the north.
The Roman-Persian Wars end.
Islam starts in Arabia, the Qur'an is documented.
Sutton Hoo ship burial, East Anglia (modern England)
Xuan Zang (aka Hsuan-Tsang) traveled from China to India, before returning to Chang An in China to translate Buddhist scriptures.
End of sporadic Buddhist rule in the Sindh.
Croats and Serbs entered their present territory early in the 7th century AD, settling in six distinct tribal delimitations, and setting up early states.
Teotihuacan is sacked and burnt.
The religion of Shugendo evolves from Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto and other influences in the mountains of Japan.
The Bulgars arrive in the Balkans.
Arab traders penetrate the area of Lake Chad.
First English poetry
Library of Alexandria destroyed again
Tang Dynasty of China

The Unknown Archont led the Serbs to the Balkans from the north
Augustine Eriugena, Irish scientist
Antara Ibn Shaddad, Arab poet
Brahmagupta, Indian mathematician
Cenn Fáelad mac Aillila, Irish scholar, died 679
Gregory the Great (Pope, 540-604)
Saint Cuthbert
Heraclius - Warrior Emperor of Byzantium who won numerous victories against the Sassanids (Persians)
Emperor Taizong of Tang China
Muhammad (570-632), Muslim Prophet
Ali ibn Abi Talib (600-661), cousin of Muhammad, central to Shi'a Islam
Saint Asaph'
Umar, second caliph of Islam
Asparuh - Khan of the Bulgars