Editing 586

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[[File:Map-balkans-vlachs.png|upright=1.35|thumb|Map of [[Balkans]] inhabited by [[Vlachs]]/[[Romanians]]]]
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Year '''586''' ('''[[Roman numerals|DLXXXVI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. The denomination 586 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 ==
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=== By place ===

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* Spring &ndash; Emperor [[Maurice (emperor)|Maurice]] rejects a peace proposal of the [[Persian people|Persians]], in exchange for renewed payments in [[gold]].<ref>{{harvnb|Greatrex|Lieu|2002|p=168}}; {{harvnb|Whitby|Whitby|1986|pp=41–43}}</ref>
* [[Battle of Solachon]]: A [[Byzantine army]] under command of [[Philippicus (comes excubitorum)|Philippicus]] defeats the [[Sassanid Empire|Sassanid Persians]], near [[Dara (Mesopotamia)|Dara]].
* The [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]] besiege [[Thessaloniki|Thessalonica]] ([[Central Macedonia]]), the second city of the [[Byzantine Empire]].<ref>History of the Byzantine Empire from DCCXVI to MLVII, George Finlay, p. 316</ref>
* The [[Vlachs]] are first mentioned in a Byzantine chronicle (approximate date).

==== Europe ====
* [[April 21]] &ndash; King [[Liuvigild]] dies at [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]] after an 18-year reign, and is succeeded by his second son [[Reccared I]].
* [[Slavs]] advance to the gates of [[Thessaloniki]] and the [[Peloponnese]].
* [[Pannonian Avars|Avars]] destroy a lien of Roman camps along the [[Danubian Limes]], including [[Colonia Ulpia Oescus|Oescus]] and [[Ratiaria]].

=== By topic ===

==== Art ====
* The Page with the [[Crucifixion of Jesus|Crucifixion]], from the "[[Rabbula Gospels]]", at the Monastery of St. John in Beth Zagba ([[Syria]]), is completed. It is now kept at the [[Laurentian Library|Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana]], [[Florence]], [[Italy]].

==== Religion ====
* Japanese [[Buddhism in Japan|Buddhism]] comes under attack as a "foreign" religion.
* [[Comgall|Saint Comgall]] founds an [[abbey]] in [[Bangor, County Down|Bangor, Northern Ireland]].
* King [[List of kings of Dumnonia#Dumnonian kings|Custennin]] of [[Dumnonia]] is converted to [[Christianity]].
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== Births ==
* [[Theudebert II]], king of [[Austrasia]] (d. [[612]])
* [[Yang Hao (prince)|Yang Hao]], prince of the [[Sui dynasty]] (approximate date)

== Deaths ==
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Liuvigild]], king of the [[Visigoths]]
* [[Hermenegild]], Visigothic prince (or [[585]])
* [[Prætextatus (Bishop of Rouen)|Prætextatus]], [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen|bishop of Rouen]] (or [[589]]) 
* [[Rhun Hir ap Maelgwn]], king of [[Kingdom of Gwynedd|Gwynedd]]
* [[Zhu Manyue]], empress of [[Northern Zhou]] (b. [[547]])

== References ==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book|last1=Greatrex|first1=Geoffrey|last2=Lieu|first2=Samuel N. C.|title=The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (Part II, 363–630 AD)|location=New York, New York and London, United Kingdom|publisher=Routledge (Taylor & Francis)|year=2002|isbn=0-415-14687-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zc8iAQAAIAAJ}}
* {{cite book |last1=Whitby |first1=Michael |last2=Whitby |first2=Mary |year=1986 |title=The History of Theophylact Simocatta |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-822799-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AtRfAAAAMAAJ}}


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