7th century

Events

• Islam starts in Arabia, the Qur'an is written, and Syria, Iraq, Persia, North Africa and Central Asia convert to Islam.
• Sutton Hoo ship burial, East Anglia (modern England)
• Xuan Zang (aka Hsuan-Tsang) travelled from China to India, before returning to Chang An in China to translate Buddhist scriptures.
• End of sporadic Buddhist rule in the Sindh.
• Serbs and Croats 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

Significant persons

• Gregory the Great (Pope, 590-604)
• Saint Cuthbert
• Emperor Taizong of Tang China
• Muhammad (570-632)
• Ali ibn Abi Talib (600-661), cousin of Muhammad, central to Shi'a Islam
• Saint Asaph

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• The stirrup introduced to Persia from China, late 7th century
• Earliest known record of the game Chatrang, predecessor to Chess

Decades and years