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Calendar overview 586
Map with all linked sites: | 586 | |
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  The Rabbula Gospels are completed.
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| 586 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 34/35 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 578/579 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1129/30 (southern Buddhism); 1128/29 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 54th (55th) cycle
Year of the fire horse丙午 ( at the beginning of the year wood snake 乙巳) |
| Jewish calendar | 4346/47 (September 18-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 302/303 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCCCXXXIX (1339)
Diocletian's era : 302/303 (November turn of the year) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 896/897 (April)
Syria: 897/898 (October) |
| Spanish era | 624 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 642/643 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Europe
- April / May: Rekkared I becomes King of the Visigoths as the successor to his late father Leovigild .
- Conquest of the Slavs in the Balkans : Slavs advance to Thessaloniki and the Peloponnese.
- Avars destroy a number of Roman forts along the Danube Limes , including Oescus and Ratiaria .
Asia
- Roman-Persian Wars : The Eastern Romans beat the Sassanids at Solachon near Dara .
Culture and religion
- Comgall founds Bangor Monastery in Northern Ireland .
- The British King Constantine of Cornwall converted to Christianity.
- The Rabbula Gospels are completed.
Disasters
- The great fire destroyed almost all buildings in Paris .
Died
- April / May: Leovigild , Visigoth king
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