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Monks in Ireland live in stone beehive cells on rocky islands, to achieve maximum discomfort
Small ivory panels, with Gospel scenes carved in relief, provide a delicate beginning to the story of Christian sculpture
Beans are gathered by the Maya from wild cocoa trees and are probably used in a chocolate drink
Clovis and some 3000 of his soldiers are baptized in a massive ceremony at Reims
Dionysius Exiguus, commissioned by the pope to improve chronology, makes an error of at least four years in his selected event for AD 1
St Benedict gathers fellow hermits at Subiaco into a series of small monasteries
The monastery of St Catherine's in Sinai is founded by Justinian, and will accumulate one of the world's greatest collections of icons
Justinian closes down the schools of Athens, famous for their tradition of pagan philosophy
St Finnian founds the first of Ireland's great Celtic monasteries, at Clonard
St Benedict founds a monastery at Monte Cassino and writes a Rule for the monks which becomes the basis of the Benedictine order
The Byzantine general Belisarius recovers Carthage from the Vandals
Christianity reaches the kingdom of Dongola, in present-day Sudan
The Slavs arrive in the Balkans and settle in all parts of the region except Albania
St Columba establishes a monastery on the island of Iona, from which Celtic Christianity is carried to Scotland and northern England
Fugitives from the Lombard invasion of northern Italy take refuge on islands in the Venetian lagoon - and become the founders of Venice
St David founds monasteries in Wales and makes his base at Mynyw, a place now known after him as St David's
The word filioque ('and from the Son') becomes a major bone of contention between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches
Gregory, bishop of Tours, brings his 'History of the Franks' up to this year
Augustine, arriving with a party of monks from Rome, reaches Canterbury and is well received by the pagan king of Kent
Ritual intoning of the psalms, derived from Jewish synagogues, is formalized in Christian worship as Gregorian chant
St Columban founds a monastery at Bobbio, the furthest outpost of Celtic Christianity
Jerusalem falls to the Persian emperor Khosrau II after a siege of a month, and it is said that 60,000 Christians are massacred
When the Persians sack Jerusalem, they carry off to Ctesiphon Christianity's most sacred relic - the True Cross
The Irish monk St Aidan moves from Iona to establish a monastery on Lindisfarne
The Byzantine emperor Heraclius recovers the True Cross from Ctesiphon
