614 - Definition and Overview

Events

• The Persian Empire under general Shahrbaraz captures and sacks Jerusalem; the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is damaged by fire and the True Cross is captured.
• The Persians destroy the Ghassanid kingdom.
• The Sudarium of Oviedo is taken from Jerusalem.
• Cynegils of Wessex invades what is now Devon.

Births

• Hilda of Whitby
• Fujiwara no Kamatari

Deaths