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Calendar overview 585
Map with all linked sites: | 585 | |
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 subjugates the Suebi Empire in the north of what is now Portugal. |
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| 585 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 33/34 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 577/578 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1128/29 (southern Buddhism); 1127/28 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 54th (55th) cycle
Year of the wood snake乙巳 ( at the beginning of the year wood dragon 甲辰) |
| Jewish calendar | 4345/46 (August 31 / September 1) |
| Coptic calendar | 301/302 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MCCCXXXVIII (1338)
Diocletian's era : 301/302 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 895/896 (April)
Syria: 896/897 (October) |
| Spanish era | 623 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 641/642 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Europe
- October 23 : The Synod of Mâcon decides to pay a “ tithe ” for the Frankish Empire , a regular payment in kind of 10% of agricultural yields. In the Middle Ages it became the most profitable tax source . At the same synod, King Guntram I dismissed several of the 43 bishops present because of political opposition.
- Leovigild , King of the Visigoths , subjugates the Suebi Empire in the north of what is now Portugal .
- Merovingian fratricidal war : Fredegunde has the bishop Pretextatus killed because he married her rival Brunichild to Merowech .
Asia
- Autumn: Yōmei becomes 31st Emperor of Japan .
- The Eastern Roman Emperor Maurikios rejects an offer of peace from the Persian Great King Hormizd IV .
religion
- around 585: Constance becomes a diocese under Bishop Maximus in place of Vindonissa (today Windisch ) .
- around 585: Creoda founds the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia .
- from around 585: The Irish wandering monk Columban the Younger begins his missionary work in the Franconian Empire , accompanied by 12 disciples (including Gallus ) and founds several monasteries (including Annegray in Burgundy ).
Born
- Theudebert II , Merovingian king († 612 )
Died
Date of death secured
- April 13 : Hermenegild , Visigothic king's son (* after 550)
- September 14 : Bidatsu , 30th Emperor of Japan (* 538 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Frithuwald , King of Bernicia
- Gundowald , Frankish usurper
- Ingund , Visigoth princess (* around 567 )
- Mummolus , Frankish general
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