597

Year 597 (DXCVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 597 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.

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597 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar597
DXCVII
Ab urbe condita1350
Armenian calendar46
ԹՎ ԽԶ
Assyrian calendar5347
Balinese saka calendar518–519
Bengali calendar4
Berber calendar1547
Buddhist calendar1141
Burmese calendar−41
Byzantine calendar6105–6106
Chinese calendar丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
3293 or 3233
     to 
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
3294 or 3234
Coptic calendar313–314
Discordian calendar1763
Ethiopian calendar589–590
Hebrew calendar4357–4358
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat653–654
 - Shaka Samvat518–519
 - Kali Yuga3697–3698
Holocene calendar10597
Iranian calendar25 BP – 24 BP
Islamic calendar26 BH – 25 BH
Javanese calendar486–487
Julian calendar597
DXCVII
Korean calendar2930
Minguo calendar1315 before ROC
民前1315年
Nanakshahi calendar−871
Seleucid era908/909 AG
Thai solar calendar1139–1140
Tibetan calendar阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
723 or 342 or −430
     to 
阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
724 or 343 or −429
The King's School, Canterbury (England)

Events

Byzantine Empire

Europe

  • Queen Fredegund defeats her old rival Brunhilda of Austrasia, who supports the claims of her grandsons Theudebert II and Theuderic II to the Frankish throne, against those of Fredegund's son Chlothar II. She dies a few months later at Paris and is buried in the Basilica of Saint Denis.
  • Chlothar II, age 13, becomes sole ruler of Neustria, and continues his mother's feud with Brunhilda. He is advised to prepare for war against Austrasia, the eastern part of the Frankish Kingdom.

Britain

  • Ceolwulf succeeds his brother Ceol as king of Wessex. He becomes regent of Ceol's son Cynegils who is too young to inherit the throne.

Asia

  • Mangalesha becomes king of the Chalukya Dynasty, after his brother Kirtivarman I dies. He rules as regent of Kirtivarman's son Pulakeshin II, and invades the territory of Khandesh and Gujarat (northwestern India).

Religion

Law

  • England gets her first written code of laws from Æthelbert. The code is concerned with preserving social order, through compensation and punishment for personal injury (approximate date).

Education

  • The King's School is founded by Augustine in Canterbury. He builds an abbey where the Benedictine teaching takes place.

Births

Deaths

References

  1. A Chronicle of England (1864), James Edmund Doyle, p. 26
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