615

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	580s  590s  600s  – 610s –  620s  630s  640s
Years:	612 613 614 – 615 – 616 617 618

615 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

615 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	615 DCXV
Ab urbe condita	1368
Armenian calendar	64 ԹՎ ԿԴ
Assyrian calendar	5365
Bengali calendar	22
Berber calendar	1565
Buddhist calendar	1159
Burmese calendar	−23
Byzantine calendar	6123–6124
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3311 or 3251     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3312 or 3252
Coptic calendar	331–332
Discordian calendar	1781
Ethiopian calendar	607–608
Hebrew calendar	4375–4376
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	671–672
- Shaka Samvat	537–538
- Kali Yuga	3716–3717
Holocene calendar	10615
Iranian calendar	7 BP – 6 BP
Islamic calendar	7 BH – 6 BH
Japanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	615 DCXV
Korean calendar	2948
Minguo calendar	1297 before ROC 民前1297年
Seleucid era	926/927 AG
Thai solar calendar	1157–1158

Muhammad begins to emigrate to Axum

Year 615 (DCXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 615 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

Europe

• The Balkans are freely overrun by the Slavs who settle in large numbers in what is now Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia and parts of Greece. The western territories of modern-day Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Croatia and Dalmatia) suffer raids from the Avars and settle in this region.^[1]
• The Slavs under Chatzon attack in longboats along the coasts of Thessaly, western Anatolia, and various Greek islands. They besiege the Byzantine city of Thessaloniki in a combined land and sea attack. The Slavs with their families encamped before the city walls.^[2]
• The city of Epidaurus (Dalmatia) is destroyed by the Avars and Slavic invaders. The Illyrian refugees flee to the nearby island Laus, where they found Dubrovnik (Ragusa). The islands Rab, Krk and Cres become major food suppliers for the surviving cities of the mainland.^[3]
• Eleutherius succeeds John I as exarch of Ravenna. He persecutes the persons implicated in the murder of John and the judges of the State. After making a courtesy visit to pope Adeodatus I, Eleutherius captures Naples and kills the rebel leader John of Conza.^[4]

Britain

• Bangor Massacre: The Anglo-Saxons under king Æthelfrith of Northumbria after defeating the Kingdom of Powys, finally reach the Irish Sea and massacre 1200 Christian monks at their monastery in Bangor (Wales).^[5]
• Edwin of Northumbria takes refuge in East Anglia; he marries Cwenburga, daughter of king Cearl of Mercia (according to the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum).

Mesoamerica

• July 29 – Queen Sak K'uk' is succeeded by her son Pacal the Great as ruler of the Maya city state Palenque (Mexico). He begins a building program at his capital that produce some of Maya civilization's finest art and architecture.

By topic

Religion

• May 25 – Pope Boniface IV dies after a 7-year reign in which he has converted the Pantheon into the Church of "Santa Maria Rotonda". He is succeeded by Adeodatus I (also known as Deusdedit) as the 68th pope of Rome.
• Muhammad and his Muslim followers begin to emigrate to the Aksumite Empire. He founds a small colony there under the protection of the Christian Ethiopian emperor Așhama ibn Abjar.^[6][7]

Births

• Æbbe, Anglo-Saxon princess and abbess (approximate date)
• Begga, Frankish abbess and saint (d. 693)
• Bertin, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
• Buyeo Yung, prince of Baekje (d. 682)
• Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad (or 605)
• Leodegar, bishop of Autun (approximate date)
• Li Jingxuan, official of the Tang Dynasty (d. 682)

Deaths

• May 25 – Pope Boniface IV
• Chatzon, chieftain of the Slavs
• November 21 – Columbanus, Irish missionary (b. 543)
• John I Lemigius, exarch of Ravenna
• John of Conza, Italian rebel leader
• Máel Coba mac Áedo, High King of Ireland
• Pybba, king of Mercia (approximate date)

References

1. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century (1991), John V.A. Fine, Jr, p. 34. ISBN 0-472-08149-7
2. The Early medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century (1991), John V.A. Fine, Jr, p. 41. ISBN 0-472-08149-7
3. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century (1991), John V.A. Fine, Jr, p. 35. ISBN 0-472-08149-7
4. Raymond Davis (translator), "The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis)", first edition (Liverpool: University Press, 1989, p. 63
5. St Dunawd, GENUKI
6. Alford Welch, "Muhammad", Encyclopedia of Islam
7. An Introduction to the Quran (1895), p. 185