586

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
  Persians, in exchange for renewed payments in gold.^[1]
• 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.
• Oescus and Ratiaria
  .

• 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)

• 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

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
  .