589
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Thai solar calendar | 1131–1132 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 715 or 334 or −438 — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 716 or 335 or −437 |
Year 589 (DLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 589 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
- Martyropolis (modern Turkey).
Europe
- May 15 – King Authari marries Theodelinda, daughter of the Bavarian duke Garibald I. A Catholic, she has great influence at court and among the Lombard nobility.
- King Childebert II attempts to impose taxes on the citizens of Tours; Bishop Gregory successfully opposes this by claiming state immunity instituted by Fredegund.
- King Guntram sends an expedition into Septimania (Southern Gaul), in support of a rebellion by the Arian bishop Athaloc.
- Claudius, duke (dux) of Lusitania, defeats the Franks and Burgundians at Carcassonne (Languedoc) on the Aude River.
- Verona.
- The plague hits Rome, and its victims include Pope Pelagius II.
Persia
- First Perso-Turkic War: The Sassanid Persians capture the cities Balkh and Herat (Afghanistan). They cross the Oxus River and repulse a Turkicinvasion.
Asia
- The Chinese Empire is reunited under the leadership of Emperor Wéndi (Sui dynasty), who defeats the Chen forces at Jiankang (modern Nanjing), ending the Chen dynasty (the last of the Southern dynasties) that has ruled since 557.
- imperial courtand amongst the other wealthy citizens.
- Tulan Qaghan, son of Ishbara Qaghan, becomes the seventh ruler (khagan) of the Turkic Khaganate.
By topic
Religion
- The Catholicism.
- The Council of psalmswhile burying their dead.
Births
- Li Jiancheng, prince of the Tang dynasty (d. 626)
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Deaths
- March 1 – David, Welsh bishop and saint
- Bagha Qaghan, ruler of the Turkic Khaganate
- Finnian of Moville, Irish missionary (b. 495)
- Zhang Lihua, consort of the Chen dynasty
References
- ^ A Chronicle of England (1864), James Edmund Doyle, p. 22