580

Year 580 (DLXXX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 580 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:
580 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar580
DLXXX
Ab urbe condita1333
Armenian calendar29
ԹՎ ԻԹ
Assyrian calendar5330
Balinese saka calendar501–502
Bengali calendar−13
Berber calendar1530
Buddhist calendar1124
Burmese calendar−58
Byzantine calendar6088–6089
Chinese calendar己亥年 (Earth Pig)
3276 or 3216
     to 
庚子年 (Metal Rat)
3277 or 3217
Coptic calendar296–297
Discordian calendar1746
Ethiopian calendar572–573
Hebrew calendar4340–4341
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat636–637
 - Shaka Samvat501–502
 - Kali Yuga3680–3681
Holocene calendar10580
Iranian calendar42 BP – 41 BP
Islamic calendar43 BH – 42 BH
Javanese calendar469–470
Julian calendar580
DLXXX
Korean calendar2913
Minguo calendar1332 before ROC
民前1332年
Nanakshahi calendar−888
Seleucid era891/892 AG
Thai solar calendar1122–1123
Tibetan calendar阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
706 or 325 or −447
     to 
阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
707 or 326 or −446

Events

Byzantine Empire

Europe

Britain

  • Æthelberht succeeds his father Eormenric as king (bretwalda) of Kent (approximate date).

Asia

  • The Northern Zhou Dynasty, strategically based in the basin of the Wei River, is supreme in Northern China. In the south only the Chen Dynasty remains a rival.[2]
  • The Chinese city of Ye (Henan) is razed to the ground by Yang Jian, future founder of the Sui Dynasty, who defeats a resistance force under Yuchi Jiong.

Religion

Births

  • Abdel Rahman ibn Awf, companion of Muhammad
  • Bilal ibn Rabah al-Habashi, companion of Muhammad
  • Cadfan ap Iago, king of Gwynedd (approximate date)
  • Clemen ap Bledric, king of Dumnonia (approximate date)
  • Dayi Daoxin, Chán Buddhist patriarch (d. 651)
  • Didier of Cahors, Frankish bishop (approximate date)
  • Fabia Eudokia, Byzantine empress (approximate date)
  • Livinus, Irish apostle (approximate date)
  • Maximus the Confessor, monk and theologian (d. 662)
  • Pepin the Elder, Frankish Mayor of the Palace (d. 640)
  • Umm Salama, wife of Muhammad (approximate date)
  • Wei Zheng, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 643)

Deaths

  • Audovera, wife of Chilperic I (approximate date)
  • Bacurius III, king of Iberia (Georgia)
  • Eormenric, king of Kent (approximate date)
  • Galam Cennalath, king of the Picts
  • Gao Anagong, high official of Northern Qi
  • Martin of Braga, missionary and archbishop
  • Wei Xiaokuan, general of Western Wei (b. 509)
  • Xuan Di, emperor of Northern Zhou (b. 559)
  • Yuchi Jiong, general of Northern Zhou

References

  1. "The New Cambridge Medieval History: c. 500–c. 700" by Paul Fouracre and Rosamond McKitterick (p. 8)
  2. Imperial Chinese Armies (p. 24). C.J. Peers, 1995. ISBN 978-1-85532-514-2
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