559

Portal history | Portal Biographies | Current events | Annual calendar

◄ | 5th century | 6th century | 7th century | ►
◄ | 520er | 530er | 540 | 550er | 560s | 570s | 580s | ►
◄◄ | ◄ | 555 | 556 | 557 | 558 | 559 | 560 | 561 | 562 | 563 | ► | ►►

Heads of state

 Map with all linked sites: OSM | WikiMap

559
Leonhard von Limoges dies.
559 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	7/8 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	551/552
Buddhist calendar	1102/03 (southern Buddhism); 1101/02 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	54th (55th) cycle Year of the Earth- Rabbit 己卯 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Tiger 戊寅)
Jewish calendar	4319/20 (September 17/18)
Coptic calendar	275/276
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MCCCXII (1312) Diocletian's era : 275/276 (New Year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 869/870 (April) Syria: 870/871 (October)
Spanish era	597
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	615/616 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

• Incursion of the Hunno-Bulgarians into the Eastern Roman Empire ; they are repulsed by Belisarius near Constantinople .

religion

• Anastasios I of Antioch becomes Patriarch of Antioch .

Died

• January 8 : Johannes Hesychastes , Greek hermit, dies at the age of 105 (* 454 )
• Leonhard of Limoges , clergyman, saint and patron saint

Web links

Commons : 559  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files