588

Year 588 (DLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 588 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:
588 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar588
DLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita1341
Armenian calendar37
ԹՎ ԼԷ
Assyrian calendar5338
Balinese saka calendar509–510
Bengali calendar−5
Berber calendar1538
Buddhist calendar1132
Burmese calendar−50
Byzantine calendar6096–6097
Chinese calendar丁未年 (Fire Goat)
3284 or 3224
     to 
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
3285 or 3225
Coptic calendar304–305
Discordian calendar1754
Ethiopian calendar580–581
Hebrew calendar4348–4349
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat644–645
 - Shaka Samvat509–510
 - Kali Yuga3688–3689
Holocene calendar10588
Iranian calendar34 BP – 33 BP
Islamic calendar35 BH – 34 BH
Javanese calendar477–478
Julian calendar588
DLXXXVIII
Korean calendar2921
Minguo calendar1324 before ROC
民前1324年
Nanakshahi calendar−880
Seleucid era899/900 AG
Thai solar calendar1130–1131
Tibetan calendar阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
714 or 333 or −439
     to 
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
715 or 334 or −438
The monastery of Skellig Michael (Ireland)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Byzantine-Sassanid War: Unpaid Byzantine troops mutiny against Priscus (magister militum per Orientem). King Hormizd IV begins a Persian offensive, but is defeated at Martyropolis (modern Turkey).
  • Summer Guaram I of Iberia, Georgian prince in exile, is sent by Emperor Maurice to the city of Mtskheta (Georgia). He restores the monarchy and is bestowed with the Byzantine court title of curopalates.

Europe

Britain

Persia

  • First Perso-Turkic War: A Persian army (12,000 men) under Bahrām Chobin, supported by Cataphracts (heavy cavalry), ambush the invading Turks, and win a great victory at the Battle of the Hyrcanian Rock.[2]

Asia

Religion

  • The Skellig Michael monastery is founded on a steep rocky island off the coast of Ireland (approximate date).
  • The Guanghua Temple in Putian (China) is built during the Chen Dynasty, under Emperor Chen Wu Di.[4]

Births

Deaths

  • Áed mac Bricc, Irish bishop and saint
  • Ælla, king of Deira (approximate date)
  • Agericus, bishop of Verdun
  • Fridianus, Irish prince and saint
  • Li Ezi, empress of Northern Zhou (b. 536)
  • Monulph, bishop of Maastricht

References

  1. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS A) s.a. 588
  2. Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F–O, (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007), p. 463
  3. Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 176
  4. Litchi City Putian Archived May 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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