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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.

Conflict & Security

  • Battle of Solachon: A Byzantine army under command of Philippicus defeats the Sassanid Persians, near Dara.source
  • Japanese Buddhism comes under attack as a "foreign" religion.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
  • 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
  • Saint Comgall founds an abbey in Bangor, Northern Ireland.source

Births

  • Theudebert II, king of Austrasia (d. 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 (b. 547)source
  • Rhun ap Maelgwn, king of Gwyneddsource