590

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	570s 580s 590s 600s 610s
Years:	587 588 589 590 591 592 593
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590 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	590 DXC
Ab urbe condita	1343
Armenian calendar	39 ԹՎ ԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	5340
Balinese saka calendar	511–512
Bengali calendar	−4 – −3
Berber calendar	1540
Buddhist calendar	1134
Burmese calendar	−48
Byzantine calendar	6098–6099
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth  Rooster) 3287 or 3080     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal  Dog) 3288 or 3081
Coptic calendar	306–307
Discordian calendar	1756
Ethiopian calendar	582–583
Hebrew calendar	4350–4351
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	646–647
- Shaka Samvat	511–512
- Kali Yuga	3690–3691
Holocene calendar	10590
Iranian calendar	32 BP – 31 BP
Islamic calendar	33 BH – 32 BH
Javanese calendar	479–480
Julian calendar	590 DXC
Korean calendar	2923
Minguo calendar	1322 before ROC 民前1322年
Nanakshahi calendar	−878
Seleucid era	901/902 AG
Thai solar calendar	1132–1133
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 716 or 335 or −437     — to — 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 717 or 336 or −436

Battle between Khosrau II and Bahrām Chobin

Year 590 ( DXC ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 590 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Byzantine–Sassanid War: Emperor Maurice defeats the Persian forces under Bahrām Chobin at Nisibis (modern Turkey), and drives them back into Armenia.
• Comentiolus, commander ( magister militum ) of the eastern army, receives the legitimate Persian king, Khosrau II, as a refugee in his headquarters at Hierapolis.
• Maurice establishes the Exarchate of Carthage in Africa. He combines the civil authority of a praetorian prefect and the military authority, based at Carthage.
• March 26 – Theodosius, eldest son of Maurice, is proclaimed as co-emperor. He becomes his father's heir to the Byzantine throne. ^[1]
• Stephen I succeeds his father Guaram I as king of Iberia (Georgia) (approximate date).

Europe

• The Franks and Burgundians under King Guntram invade Italy. They capture the cities Milan and Verona, but are forced to leave by a plague outbreak in the Po Valley.
• The Franks again invade Italy; they capture Modena and Mantua. Several Lombard dukes defect: Gisulf I, duke of Friuli, is defeated and replaced by his son Gisulf II.
• September 5 – King Authari dies (possibly by poison) after a six-year reign, and is succeeded by Agilulf, duke ( dux ) of Turin, who marries his widow Theodelinda.
• Frankish rebellion led by Basina, daughter of Chilperic I.

Britain

• Æthelberht succeeds his father Eormenric as king ( bretwalda ) of Kent (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ).
• Siege of Lindisfarne: A Brythonic coalition lays siege to King Hussa of Bernicia at Lindisfarne Castle (Holy Island).
• Owain mab Urien succeeds his father Urien, as Brythonic king of Rheged in Northern England (approximate date).

Persia

• Spring – King Hormizd IV dismisses Bahrām Chobin as commander ( Eran spahbed ). He revolts and marches with the support of the Persian army towards Ctesiphon.
• February 15 – Hormizd IV is deposed and assassinated by Persian nobles. Having ruled since 579, he is succeeded by his son Khosrau II as king of the Persian Empire.
• September – Bahrām Chobin defeats the inferior forces of Khosrau II near Ctesiphon. He seizes the throne and proclaims himself as king Bahrām IV of Persia.

Asia

• Kadungon becomes king of the Pandyan Kingdom in South India (approximate date).
• Yeongyang becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo. ^[2]

By topic

Religion

• February 7 – Pope Pelagius II falls victim to the plague that devastated Rome. After an 11-year reign he is succeeded by Gregory I, age 50, as the 64th pope, and the first from a monastic background.
• Egidius, bishop of Reims, is tried at Metz before a council of bishops for a conspiracy against King Childebert II; he is found guilty and exiled to Strasbourg.
• Gregory I begins a vigorous program of rebuilding aqueducts and restoring Rome. He feeds the citizens with doles of grain, as under Roman imperial rule.
• Columbanus, Irish missionary, obtains from King Guntram the Gallo-Roman castle Luxovium (Luxeuil-les-Bains), where he founds the Abbey of Luxeuil. ^[3]
• John of Biclaro, Visigoth chronicler, finishes his "Chronicle" before he is appointed bishop of Girona (Catalonia, Spain).

Births

• Benjamin, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (approximate date)
• Boran, Queen of Persia (d. 632)
• Braulio, bishop of Zaragoza (d. 651)
• Cedda, prince of Wessex (approximate date)
• Dervan, prince of the Sorbs (approximate date)
• Eanfrith, king of Bernicia (d. 634)
• Harsha, Indian emperor (d. 647)
• Jajang, Korean monk (d. 658)
• Judicaël, high king of Domnonée (approximate)
• Kavadh II, king of the Sasanian Empire (d. 628)
• Secundus of Non, Lombard abbot
• Sichilde, Frankish queen (d. 627)
• Theodore Rshtuni, Armenian general

Deaths

• February 7 – Pope Pelagius II (b. 520)
• September 5 – Authari, king of the Lombards
• Blane, Scottish bishop and saint
• Eormenric, king of Kent (England)
• Gisulf I, duke of Friuli (Italy)
• Guaram I, king of Iberia (Georgia)
• Hormizd IV, king of the Persian Empire
• Ermelinde, Brabant Saint (b. 510)

References

1. Martindale, Jones & Morris 1992, p. 1293
2. "List of Rulers of Korea". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
3. Jonas 643, p. 17