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| Gregorian calendar | 586 DLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1339 |
| Armenian calendar | 35 ԹՎ ԼԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5336 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 507–508 |
| Bengali calendar | −7 |
| Berber calendar | 1536 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1130 |
| Burmese calendar | −52 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6094–6095 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3283 or 3076 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3284 or 3077 |
| Coptic calendar | 302–303 |
| Discordian calendar | 1752 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 578–579 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4346–4347 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 642–643 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 507–508 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3686–3687 |
| Holocene calendar | 10586 |
| Iranian calendar | 36 BP – 35 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 37 BH – 36 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 475–476 |
| Julian calendar | 586 DLXXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 2919 |
| Minguo calendar | 1326 before ROC 民前1326年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −882 |
| Seleucid era | 897/898 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1128–1129 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 712 or 331 or −441 — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 713 or 332 or −440 |
Year 586 (DLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 586 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
Byzantine Empire
- Spring – Emperor Maurice rejects a peace proposal of the Persians, in exchange for renewed payments in gold.[1]
- Battle of Solachon: A Byzantine army under command of Philippicus defeats the Sassanid Persians, near Dara.
- The Avars besiege Thessalonica (Central Macedonia), the second city of the Byzantine Empire.[2]
- The Vlachs are first mentioned in a Byzantine chronicle (approximate date).
Europe
- April 21 – King Liuvigild dies at Toledo after an 18-year reign, and is succeeded by his second son Reccared I.
- Slavs advance to the gates of Thessaloniki and the Peloponnese.
- Avars destroy a lien of Roman camps along the Danubian Limes, including Oescus and Ratiaria.
By topic
Art
- The Page with the Crucifixion, from the "Rabbula Gospels", at the Monastery of St. John in Beth Zagba (Syria), is completed. It is now kept at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy.
Religion
- Japanese Buddhism comes under attack as a "foreign" religion.
- Saint Comgall founds an abbey in Bangor, Northern Ireland.
- King Custennin of Dumnonia is converted to Christianity.
Births
- Theudebert II, king of Austrasia (d. 612)
- Yang Hao, prince of the Sui dynasty (approximate date)
Deaths
- April 21 – Liuvigild, king of the Visigoths
- Hermenegild, Visigothic prince (or 585)
- Prætextatus, bishop of Rouen (or 589)
- Rhun Hir ap Maelgwn, king of Gwynedd
- Zhu Manyue, empress of Northern Zhou (b. 547)
References
- ↑ Greatrex & Lieu 2002, p. 168; Whitby & Whitby 1986, pp. 41–43
- ↑ History of the Byzantine Empire from DCCXVI to MLVII, George Finlay, p. 316
Bibliography
- Greatrex, Geoffrey; Lieu, Samuel N. C. (2002). The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (Part II, 363–630 AD). New York, New York and London, United Kingdom: Routledge (Taylor & Francis). ISBN 0-415-14687-9.
- Whitby, Michael; Whitby, Mary (1986). The History of Theophylact Simocatta. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-822799-1.
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