610

This article is about the year 610.

Centuries:	6th century · 7th century · 8th century
Decades:	580s 590s 600s 610s 620s 630s 640s
Years:	607 608 609 610 611 612 613

610 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**610 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	610 DCX
Ab urbe condita	1363
Armenian calendar	59 ԹՎ ԾԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-1234 – -1233
Bengali calendar	17
Berber calendar	1560
Buddhist calendar	1154
Burmese calendar	-28
Byzantine calendar	6118 – 6119
Chinese calendar	己巳年十二月初一日 (3246/3306-12-1) — to — 庚午年閏十一月十一日 (3247/3307-intercalary 11-11)
Coptic calendar	326 – 327
Ethiopian calendar	602 – 603
Hebrew calendar	4370 – 4371
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	666 – 667
- Shaka Samvat	532 – 533
- Kali Yuga	3711 – 3712
Holocene calendar	10610
Iranian calendar	12 BP – 11 BP
Islamic calendar	12 BH – 11 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2943
Thai solar calendar	1153

Events

October 4—Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows East Roman Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor. His first major act is to change the official language of the East Roman Empire from Latin to Greek (already the language of the vast majority of the population). Because of this, after AD 610 the East Roman Empire is customarily referred to as the Byzantine Empire (the term Byzantine is a modern term invented by historians in the 18th Century; the people of the Empire itself always referred to themselves as "Ρωμιούς" – in English, Romious).

Paper technology is imported into Japan from China by the Korean Buddhist priest, Dam Jing.

According to Islamic belief, the archangel Gabriel first appears to Muhammad, reciting to him the first verses of surat Iqra (al-`Alaq), thus beginning the revelation of the Qur'an (approximate date).
St. Columbanus and St. Gall begin missionary work in Bregenz.
St. John the Merciful becomes Patriarch of Alexandria.