579

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

579 in other calendars
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

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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

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.

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.

Frithuwald succeeds his brother Theodoric as king of Bernicia (Scotland). He rules from 579–585 (approximate date).

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.

Emperor Xuan Di abdicates the throne to his son Jing Di, age 6, and rules as regent the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

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).