578

Year 578 (DLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 578 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
578 by topic
Leaders
  • Political entities
  • State leaders
  • Religious leaders
Categories
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
578 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar578
DLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita1331
Armenian calendar27
ԹՎ ԻԷ
Assyrian calendar5328
Balinese saka calendar499–500
Bengali calendar−15
Berber calendar1528
Buddhist calendar1122
Burmese calendar−60
Byzantine calendar6086–6087
Chinese calendar丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
3274 or 3214
    — to —
戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
3275 or 3215
Coptic calendar294–295
Discordian calendar1744
Ethiopian calendar570–571
Hebrew calendar4338–4339
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat634–635
 - Shaka Samvat499–500
 - Kali Yuga3678–3679
Holocene calendar10578
Iranian calendar44 BP – 43 BP
Islamic calendar45 BH – 44 BH
Javanese calendar467–468
Julian calendar578
DLXXVIII
Korean calendar2911
Minguo calendar1334 before ROC
民前1334年
Nanakshahi calendar−890
Seleucid era889/890 AG
Thai solar calendar1120–1121
Tibetan calendar阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
704 or 323 or −449
    — to —
阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
705 or 324 or −448
Emperor Justin II (c. 520–578)

Events

Byzantine Empire
  • Byzantine–Sassanid War: A Byzantine army under command of Maurice (magister militum per Orientem) invades Upper Mesopotamia, and raids on both sides of the Tigris. He deports 70,000 captives from Hyrcania to Cyprus, and installs military colonists to guard the strategic locations.[1]
  • October 5 – Emperor Justin II dies after several periods of insanity. On the advice of his wife Sophia, he has raised his general Tiberius to the rank of co-emperor (Caesar). From December 574 he has ruled jointly with Sophia, and now succeeds them as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

Asia
  • Summer – Emperor Wu Di engages in military campaigns on two fronts: against the invading Göktürks to the north and against the Chen Dynasty in the south.
  • Wu Di, age 35, dies from an illness, and is succeeded by his eldest son Xuan Di as emperor of Northern Zhou.
  • Kongō Gumi, the world's oldest construction company (578–2006), is founded in Osaka (Japan).

Central America
  • October 22 – Tzi-B'alam, who had been the ruler of the Mayan city state of Copán in Honduras, dies after a 25 year reign that began in May 553.
  • November 15 – K'ak' Chan Yopaat, becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city state of Copán in Honduras, and rules until his death 49 years later in 628.

Deaths
  • July 30 – Jacob Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa
  • October 5 – Justin II, Byzantine emperor
  • Abdul Muttalib, grandfather of Islamic prophet Muhammad
  • Wu Di, emperor of Northern Zhou (b. 543)
  • Wu Mingche, general of the Chen Dynasty (b. 512)
  • Wuffa, king of East Anglia (approximate date)
  • Yuwen Xian, prince of Northern Zhou (b. 544)
  • Approximate date -
    • Bhavyaviveka, Indian Madhyamaka scholar
    • Hatim al-Tai, Arabian poet
    • John Malalas, Byzantine chronicler (b. c.491)[2]

References
  1. Romano-Byzantine Armies 4th—9th Centuries (p. 9). David Nicolle, 1992. ISBN 978-1-85532-224-0
  2. "John Malalas | Byzantine chronicler". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
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