591

Year 591 (DXCI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 591 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:
591 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar591
DXCI
Ab urbe condita1344
Armenian calendar40
ԹՎ Խ
Assyrian calendar5341
Balinese saka calendar512–513
Bengali calendar−2
Berber calendar1541
Buddhist calendar1135
Burmese calendar−47
Byzantine calendar6099–6100
Chinese calendar庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
3287 or 3227
     to 
辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
3288 or 3228
Coptic calendar307–308
Discordian calendar1757
Ethiopian calendar583–584
Hebrew calendar4351–4352
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat647–648
 - Shaka Samvat512–513
 - Kali Yuga3691–3692
Holocene calendar10591
Iranian calendar31 BP – 30 BP
Islamic calendar32 BH – 31 BH
Javanese calendar480–481
Julian calendar591
DXCI
Korean calendar2924
Minguo calendar1321 before ROC
民前1321年
Nanakshahi calendar−877
Seleucid era902/903 AG
Thai solar calendar1133–1134
Tibetan calendar阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
717 or 336 or −436
     to 
阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
718 or 337 or −435
King Khosrau II of Persia (590–628)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Byzantine–Sassanid War: Emperor Maurice, seeing an opportunity to end the prolonged war to the advantage of Constantinople, assists Khosrau II to regain the Persian throne. He sends a Byzantine army (35,000 men) under Narses into Mesopotamia, through Syria. At the same time, an expeditionary force in Armenia advances through Caucasian Iberia into Media (modern Azerbaijan).
  • Battle of Blarathon: A Persian army of about 40,000 men under King Bahrām VI is defeated, in the lowlands near Ganzak (northwestern Iran), by the Byzantines. Bahrām flees to seek refuge with the Turks in Central Asia, and settles in Fergana.[1] However, after some time, he is murdered by a hired assassin of Khosrau II.[2]
  • Summer Maurice begins a series of military expeditions, to defend the Balkan provinces from the Avars and Slavs. He establishes the Danube frontier (Limes Moesiae) from the Delta to the fortress city of Singidunum (Belgrade), and permits the Byzantines to reassert their authority in the interior.[3]

Europe

  • Agilulf, cousin of Authari (called "the Thuringian"), is raised on the shield (a ceremonial investment) by Lombard warriors in Milan. He becomes king of the Lombards, on advice of the Lombard dukes (dux). Agilulf marries widowed queen Theodelinda and is baptized to please her.
  • Arechis I succeeds his uncle Zotto as the second Duke of Benevento.
  • A locust swarm destroys the harvest in Northern Italy (approximate date).

Persia

  • Khosrau II is reinstalled as king of the Persian Empire. Peace with Constantinople is concluded after a war of almost 20 years. Maurice receives the Persian provinces of Armenia and Georgia. The recognition of the traditional frontiers, and the cessation of subsidies for the Caucasus forts, leaves the Byzantines in a dominant position in their relations with Persia.

Asia

  • The first city wall of Hangzhou (Eastern China) is constructed.

Mesoamerica

Religion

Births

  • Cadwallon ap Cadfan, king of Gwynedd (approximate date)
  • Gundeberga, queen of the Lombards
  • Li Xiaogong, prince of the Tang Dynasty (d. 640)
  • Su Dingfang, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 667)

Deaths

  • Aredius, abbot and saint
  • Faroald I, duke of Spoleto (or 592)
  • Garibald I, duke of Bavaria (b. 540)
  • Golindouch, Persian saint
  • John Mystacon, Byzantine general (approximate date)
  • Peter III of Raqqa, Patriarch of Antioch
  • Li Delin, Chinese official and writer (b. 531)
  • Yan Zhitui, Chinese scholar and official (b. 531)
  • Zotto, founder of the Duchy of Benevento

References

  1. Gumilev L.N.Bahram Chubin, p. 229–230
  2. Usanova M. Ismoil Somonii waqfnomasi, p. 29
  3. Rome at War (p. 60). Michael Whitby, 2002. ISBN 1-84176-359-4
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