586

This article is about the year 586. For the number, see 586 (number). For other uses, see 586 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	550s 560s 570s – 580s – 590s 600s 610s
Years:	583 584 585 – 586 – 587 588 589

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

586 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	586 DLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1339
Armenian calendar	35 ԹՎ ԼԵ
Assyrian calendar	5336
Bengali calendar	−7
Berber calendar	1536
Buddhist calendar	1130
Burmese calendar	−52
Byzantine calendar	6094–6095
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3282 or 3222 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3283 or 3223
Coptic calendar	302–303
Discordian calendar	1752
Ethiopian calendar	578–579
Hebrew calendar	4346–4347
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	642–643
- Shaka Samvat	508–509
- Kali Yuga	3687–3688
Holocene calendar	10586
Iranian calendar	36 BP – 35 BP
Islamic calendar	37 BH – 36 BH
Julian calendar	586 DLXXXVI
Korean calendar	2919
Minguo calendar	1326 before ROC 民前1326年
Seleucid era	897/898 AG
Thai solar calendar	1128–1129

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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

Spring – Emperor Maurice rejects a peace proposal of the Persians in exchange for renewed payments in gold.^[1]
Battle of Solachon: A Byzantine army under command of Philippicus defeat the 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).

April 21 – King Liuvigild dies at Toledo after an 18-year reign and is succeeded by his second son Reccared I.

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.