582

Year 582 (DLXXXII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 582 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

• Persian Empire
  .
• Autumn – Maurice elevates
  Arzanene (Armenia), where they fight a pitched battle at the river Nymphius (Batman River).^[2][3]

• Avars, under their ruler (khagan) Bayan I, aided by Slavic auxiliary troops, capture the city of Sirmium after almost a 3-year siege. Bayan establishes a new base of operations within the Byzantine Empire, from which he plunders the Balkan Peninsula
  .
• Clotaire I, arrives with the financial support of Constantinople in southern Gaul. He claims as usurper king the cities Poitiers and Toulouse, part of the Frankish Kingdom
  (approximate date).
• The Visigoths under King Liuvigild capture the city of Mérida (western central Spain), which is under the political control of its popular bishop Masona. He is arrested and exiled for 3 years.

Persia

• A
  Tamkhosrau crosses the Euphrates River and attacks the city of Constantina (modern Turkey), but he is defeated by the Byzantines
  and killed.

• Spring – Emperor Xuan, age 52, dies after a 13-year reign and is succeeded by his incompetent son Houzhu, who becomes the new ruler of the Chen dynasty.
• Emperor Wen of the Sui dynasty orders the building of a new capital, which he calls Daxing (Great Prosperity), on a site southeast of Chang'an (modern Xi'an).

By topic

Religion

• John Nesteutes becomes the 33rd bishop or patriarch of Constantinople
  .

• Arnulf of Metz, Frankish bishop and saint (approximate date)
• Li Mi, Chinese rebel leader during the Sui dynasty (d. 619)

Deaths

• April 5 – Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople
• August 14 – Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor
• Agathias, Greek poet and historian (approximate date)
• Ashina, empress of Northern Zhou (b. 551)
• Justinian, Byzantine general (magister militum)
• marzban
  )
• Xuan Di, emperor of the Chen dynasty (b. 530)

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