579
This article is about the year 579. For the number, see 579 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 540s 550s 560s – 570s – 580s 590s 600s |
| Years: | 576 577 578 – 579 – 580 581 582 |
| 579 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 579 DLXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1332 |
| Armenian calendar | 28 ԹՎ ԻԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5329 |
| Bengali calendar | −14 |
| Berber calendar | 1529 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1123 |
| Burmese calendar | −59 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6087–6088 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3275 or 3215 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3276 or 3216 |
| Coptic calendar | 295–296 |
| Discordian calendar | 1745 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 571–572 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4339–4340 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 635–636 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 501–502 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3680–3681 |
| Holocene calendar | 10579 |
| Iranian calendar | 43 BP – 42 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 44 BH – 43 BH |
| Julian calendar | 579 DLXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 2912 |
| Minguo calendar | 1333 before ROC 民前1333年 |
| Seleucid era | 890/891 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1121–1122 |
King Hormizd IV (579–590)
Year 579 (DLXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 579 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
- Byzantine-Sassanid War: King Khosrau I seeks peace, but dies before an agreement could by reached. The Mesopotamian frontier becomes a stalemate and Maurice (magister militum of the East) fortified the borders in Armenia and Syria.
Europe
- Hermenegild, son of Visigothic king Liuvigild, marries Ingund. He rebels against his father, starting in Seville (Southern Spain), and declares himself Catholic.
- Heavy taxes levied by Merovingian king Chilperic I of Neustria produce a revolt at Limoges (central France) as he sells bishoprics to the highest bidder.
Britain
- Frithuwald succeeds his brother Theodoric as king of Bernicia (Scotland). He rules from 579–585 (approximate date).
Persia
- Khosrau I dies after a 48-year reign and has extended his realm from the River Oxus to the Red Sea. He is succeeded by his son Hormizd IV who becomes king of the Persian Empire.
- Summer – Hormizd IV refuses to give up territories and breaks off the negotiations with the Byzantine Empire.[1] The Türks invade Khorasan and reach Hyrcania on the Caspian Sea.
Asia
- Emperor Xuan Di abdicates the throne to his son Jing Di, age 6, and rules as regent the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
By topic
Religion
- July 30 – Pope Benedict I dies after a 4-year reign and is succeeded by Pelagius II as the 63rd pope. During the Lombard siege of Rome he labors to solve the problems of famine.
- Pelagius II sends Gregory as his apocrisiarius (ambassador to the imperial court in Constantinople).[2] He is part of a Roman delegation to ask for military aid against the Lombards.
- Leander, Catholic bishop of Seville, is exiled by Liuvigild and withdraws to Constantinople. At the Byzantine court he composes works against Arianism (approximate date).
Births
- Fang Xuanling, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 648)
- Umar I, Muslim caliph (d. 644)
Deaths
- Khosrau I, king of the Persian Empire
- July 30 – Pope Benedict I
- Theodric, king of Bernicia (Scotland)
References
- ↑ Greatrex, Lieu & 2002 p. 160–162
- ↑ Ekonomou, 2007, p. 8
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