him: "The Prophet of Allah". Muhammad gathers followers, reciting to them the first verses of Qur'an(Iqra), thus beginning the revelation of the Qur'an. Pope Boniface IV presides over a Council of Rome for the restoration of monastic discipline. Attendees include Mellitus, first bishop of London. Columbanus and Gallus begin their missionary work in Bregenz, near Lake Constance (Switzerland). John V (the Merciful) becomes patriarch of Alexandria (approximate date). Births Anania Shirakatsi, Armenian astronomer (d. 685) Barbatus, bishop of Benevento (approximate date) Ergica, king of the Visigoths (approximate date) Grimoald, King of the Lombards (approximate date) Lai Ji, official of the Tang dynasty (d. 662) Nanthild, Frankish queen (approximate date) Safiyya bint Huyayy, wife of Muhammad (approximate date) Deaths October 5 – Phocas, Byzantine emperor Gisulf II, Lombard duke of Friuli (approximate date) Heraclius the Elder, Byzantine general Tassilo I, King of Bavaria (b. 560) Waraka ibn Nawfal, the paternal first cousin of Khadija, the first wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Witteric, king of the Visigoths References