| 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 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1265–-1264 |
| Bengali calendar | -14 |
| Berber calendar | 1529 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1123 |
| Burmese calendar | -59 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6087–6088 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年十一月十八日 (3215/3275-11-18) — to —
己亥年十一月廿八日(3216/3276-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 295–296 |
| 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 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2912 |
| Minguo calendar | 1333 before ROC 民前1333年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1122 |
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.