596
This article is about the year 596. For the number, see 596 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 560s 570s 580s – 590s – 600s 610s 620s |
| Years: | 593 594 595 – 596 – 597 598 599 |
| 596 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 596 DXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1349 |
| Armenian calendar | 45 ԹՎ ԽԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5346 |
| Bengali calendar | 3 |
| Berber calendar | 1546 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1140 |
| Burmese calendar | −42 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6104–6105 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3292 or 3232 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3293 or 3233 |
| Coptic calendar | 312–313 |
| Discordian calendar | 1762 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 588–589 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4356–4357 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 652–653 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 518–519 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3697–3698 |
| Holocene calendar | 10596 |
| Iranian calendar | 26 BP – 25 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 27 BH – 26 BH |
| Julian calendar | 596 DXCVI |
| Korean calendar | 2929 |
| Minguo calendar | 1316 before ROC 民前1316年 |
| Seleucid era | 907/908 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1138–1139 |
Settlements of Anglo-Saxon people in Britain
Year 596 (DXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 596 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
- Emperor Maurice uses the city of Marcianopolis (modern Bulgaria) as a military base of operations on the lower Danube River against the Slavs on the Balkans.
Britain
- Battle of Raith: An invading force of Angles land on the Fife coast[1] near Raith (Kirkcaldy) and defeat an alliance of Scots, Britons and Picts under king Áedán mac Gabráin of Dál Riata (Scotland).
Asia
- Emperor Wéndi sends diplomatic letters to the royal court of Goguryeo (Korea). He demands the cancel of the military alliance with the Eastern Turk Khanate and the raiding of Sui border regions.
By topic
Religion
- Gregorian Mission: Augustine of Canterbury lands with a group of missionaries on the Isle of Thanet (South East England). He is welcomed by king Æthelberht of Kent, who accepts baptism along with the rest of his court at the behest of his Christian Frankish wife, Bertha. Æthelbert assigns Augustine and his 40 monks a residence at Canterbury (Kent), where they found a Benedictine monastery that will make the town a centre of Christianity (or 597).
Births
- Cui Dunli, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 656)
- Dàoxuān, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 667)
- Gao Jifu, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 654)
- Kōtoku, emperor of Japan (d. 654)
- Liu Xiangdao, official of the Tang Dynasty (d. 666)
Deaths
References
- ↑ "596 a.D. - The Battle of Raith | made by young people at Makewaves". Radiowaves.co.uk. 2009-05-21. Retrieved 2012-09-08.
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