586 CE

Battle of Solachon: A Byzantine army under command of Philippicus defeats the Sassanid Persians, near Dara. The Page with the Crucifixion, from the "Rabbula Gospels", at the Monastery of St. John in Beth Zagba (Syria), is completed. It is now kept at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy. The Avars besiege Thessalonica (Central Macedonia), the second city of the Byzantine Empire.

In the 580s, the 6th century.

Conflict & Security

  • Battle of Solachon: A Byzantine army under command of Philippicus defeats the Sassanid Persians, near Dara.source
  • The Avars besiege Thessalonica (Central Macedonia), the second city of the Byzantine Empire.source
  • Spring – Emperor Maurice rejects a peace proposal of the Persians, in exchange for renewed payments in gold.source
  • Avars destroy a lien of Roman camps along the Danubian Limes, including Oescus and Ratiaria.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • Slavs advance to the gates of Thessaloniki and the Peloponnese.source
  • The Vlachs are first mentioned in a Byzantine chronicle (approximate date).source

Religion & Belief

  • King Custennin of Dumnonia is converted to Christianity.source
  • Japanese Buddhism comes under attack as a "foreign" religion.source
  • Saint Comgall founds an abbey in Bangor, Northern Ireland.source

Culture & Society

  • The Page with the Crucifixion, from the "Rabbula Gospels", at the Monastery of St. John in Beth Zagba (Syria), is completed. It is now kept at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy.source

Births

  • Theudebert II, king of Austrasia (died 612)source
  • Yang Hao, prince of the Sui dynasty (approximate date)source

Deaths

  • April 21 – King Liuvigild dies at Toledo after an 18-year reign, and is succeeded by his second son Reccared I.source
  • April 21 – Liuvigild, king of the Visigothssource
  • Hermenegild, Visigothic prince (or 585)source
  • Prætextatus, bishop of Rouen (or 589)source
  • Zhu Manyue, empress of Northern Zhou (born 547)source
  • Rhun ap Maelgwn, king of Gwyneddsource