586

This article is about the year 586. For other uses, see 586 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	560s 570s 580s 590s 600s
Years:	583 584 585 586 587 588 589

586 in various calendars

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

Map of Balkans inhabited by Vlachs/Romanians

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.
• 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.
• 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)

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.