Centuries:	5th century · 6th century · 7th century
Decades:	550s 560s 570s 580s 590s 600s 610s
Years:	586 587 588 589 590 591 592

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Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

589 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	589 DLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1342
Armenian calendar	38 ԹՎ ԼԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-1255 – -1254
Bengali calendar	-4
Berber calendar	1539
Buddhist calendar	1133
Burmese calendar	-49
Byzantine calendar	6097 – 6098
Chinese calendar	戊申年十二月初九日 (3225/3285-12-9) — to — 己酉年十一月十九日 (3226/3286-11-19)
Coptic calendar	305 – 306
Ethiopian calendar	581 – 582
Hebrew calendar	4349 – 4350
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	644 – 645
- Shaka Samvat	511 – 512
- Kali Yuga	3690 – 3691
Holocene calendar	10589
Iranian calendar	33 BP – 32 BP
Islamic calendar	34 BH – 33 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2922
Thai solar calendar	1132
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[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Europe

• October 17—The Adige River overflows its banks, flooding the church of St. Zeno and damaging the walls of Verona.
• The plague hits Rome, and its victims included Pope Pelagius II.

[edit] Asia

• China: The Chen Dynasty ends; Jiankang (Nanjing), the last of the Southern dynasties, is completely destroyed; China is reunited under the Sui Dynasty.
• The Chinese scholar-official Yan Zhitui makes the first reference to the use of toilet paper in human history.

[edit] By topic

[edit] Religion

• The Third Council of Toledo, called by King Reccared of the Visigoths, renounces Arianism and embraces Catholicism.
• The Council of Narbonne is held.

[edit] Births

• Bavo, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint
• Li Jiancheng

[edit] Deaths

• Emperor Sushun, emperor of Japan
• March 1—Saint David, the patron saint of Wales
• Consort Zhang Lihua