581

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	550s 560s 570s – 580s – 590s 600s 610s
Years:	578 579 580 – 581 – 582 583 584

581 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

581 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	581 DLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	1334
Armenian calendar	30 ԹՎ Լ
Assyrian calendar	5331
Bengali calendar	−12
Berber calendar	1531
Buddhist calendar	1125
Burmese calendar	−57
Byzantine calendar	6089–6090
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3277 or 3217 — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3278 or 3218
Coptic calendar	297–298
Discordian calendar	1747
Ethiopian calendar	573–574
Hebrew calendar	4341–4342
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	637–638
- Shaka Samvat	503–504
- Kali Yuga	3682–3683
Holocene calendar	10581
Iranian calendar	41 BP – 40 BP
Islamic calendar	42 BH – 41 BH
Julian calendar	581 DLXXXI
Korean calendar	2914
Minguo calendar	1331 before ROC 民前1331年
Seleucid era	892/893 AG
Thai solar calendar	1123–1124

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The Sui Dynasty (581–618)

Year 581 (DLXXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 581 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: A Byzantine army under command of Maurice with support of Ghassanid forces under king Al-Mundhir III fails to capture the Persian capital, Ctesiphon, along the Euphrates.^[1]
Maurice accuses Mundhir III of treason and is brought to Constantinople to faced trial. Emperor Tiberius II Constantine treats him well and allows Mundhir with his family a comfortable residence.^[2]^[3]
Al-Nu'man VI, son (de facto) of Mundhir III, revolts with the Ghassanids against the Byzantine Empire after his father is treacherously arrested.

Palace coup in Austrasia; new advisors break the peace treaty with king Guntram and make a new alliance with his half brother Chilperic I in which Childebert II, age 11, is recognized as Chilperic's heir.
The Lombards under Zotto, Duke of Benevento, sack the abbey of Monte Cassino near Naples. The Benedictine monks who survive flee to Rome, but they return to the site, and rebuild the monastery.
The Göktürks under Taspar Qaghan besiege the city of Chersonesos Taurica (modern Ukraine) located at the Black Sea, their cavalry keep plundering the steppes of the Crimean Peninsula until 590.^[4]

The Anglo-Saxons under Ælla conquer Deira (Northern England) from the Britons. He becomes the first king of Deira (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).

The Northern Zhou Dynasty ends: Yáng Jiān executes the last ruler Jing Di, age 8, along with 58 royal relatives at Chang'an. He proclaims himself emperor and establishes the Sui Dynasty in China.
The "Great City of Helu", situated on the shores of Taihu Lake, is renamed Suzhou during the Sui Dynasty (approximate date).
In Turkish Empire interregnum begins. Because there are several candidates to the throne; Talopien (Late khagan's candidate), Ishbara (Kurultay's choice) and Tardu (western yabgu).
Ishbara Qaghan, grandson of Bumin Qaghan, becomes new ruler (khagan) of the Turkic Khaganate (Central Asia).

Maurice writes an encyclopedic work on the science of war (the "Strategikon"), which exercise a major influence on the military system.

Synod of Mâcon: In a council of Christian bishops in Mâcon (Burgundy) Jews are prohibited from serving as judges of customs officers.