Augustine's mission to Kent
Pope Gregory sends monks to convert the Anglo-Saxons
In 597 the monk Augustine and some forty companions, sent by Pope Gregory the Great, landed in Kent and were received by King Æthelberht. The king was soon baptised, Augustine became the first Archbishop of Canterbury, and within a century Christianity had spread across Anglo-Saxon England.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 6th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 622 Hijra: Muhammad's migration to Medina — 25 years later
Asia
- 589 Sui dynasty reunifies China — 8 years earlier
- 605–610 Grand Canal of China — 8 years later
- 618 Founding of the Tang dynasty — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Muhammad (aged 27)
- Prince Shōtoku (aged 23)