Din Timelines

World History Timelines

550 To 599

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550

c - Avars in Russia.

552

jul 10 - Origin of Armenian calendar.

oct 01 - Teja, king of Ostrogoten, dies in battle.

553

may 05 - 2nd Council of Constantinople 5th Ecumenical council opens.

554

aug 14 - Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines milt governor in Italy.

555

jun 07 - Vigilius dies ending his reign as Catholic Pope 537-555.

556

feb 21 - Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies.

apr 16 - Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

558

dec 23 - Childebert, king of France 511-558, dies at about 62.

561

mar 03 - Pelagius I, Italian Pope (547-51, 556-61), dies.

jul 17 - John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I.

nov 29 - Chlotarius I, king of the France 558-561, dies at about 61.

563

c - England The Dal Riadan Scots.

nov 14 - Justinian I, emperor of Byzantium 527-563, dies at 82.

565

c - England King Ethelbert of Kent reigns.

aug 22 - St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness.

570

c - England Death of Gildas.

jan 19 - Muhammad, "the Prophet" of Islam. u.632

573

jun 28 - Alboin, king of Longobarden, probably poisoned by his wife.

aug 20 - Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours.

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574

jul 13 - John III dies ending his reign as Catholic Pope. 561-574

575

jun 02 - Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

578

oct 05 - Justinus II, Byzantine emperor 565-oct 05 578, dies.

579

jul 30 - Benedict I dies ending his reign as Catholic Pope. 575-579

nov 26 - Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

580

aug 26 - Chinese invents toilet paper.

aug 30 - Mohammed, Arabic prophet/founder (Islam), is born.

581

x - China Sui Dynastyu.618

585

apr 28 - War between Lydia & Media ended by solar eclipse.

oct 23 - Burgundy king Guntram opens synod of Mƒcon (Mastico).

587

aug 13 - Radegundis, daughter of Thrings king Berthar/saint, dies.

nov 28 - Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram takes cousin Childebert II as heir.

590

feb 07 - Pelagius II, Gothic Pope 0579c0000-590 dies from plague.

sep 03 - St Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

593

x - Japan The near-mythical Shotoku acts as regent to his aunt, the empress Suiko, and completely refashions the government, marking him as perhaps Japan's first statesman. u.622

mar 28 - Guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67.

594

nov 17 - Gregorius van Tours, Frankisch bishop of Tours, dies.

595

x - Indian mathematicians use decimal system

596

x - England Pope Gregory I sends a group of missionaries under a monk named Augustine to Kent, where King Ethelbert had married Bertha d.c.612, a Christian Frankish princess.Soon after, Ethelbert was baptized, Augustine became the first archbishop of Canterbury, and the southern kingdoms became Christian.