588

Year 588 (DLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 588 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	560s 570s 580s 590s 600s
Years:	585 586 587 588 589 590 591

588 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	588 DLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1341
Armenian calendar	37 ԹՎ ԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	5338
Balinese saka calendar	509–510
Bengali calendar	−5
Berber calendar	1538
Buddhist calendar	1132
Burmese calendar	−50
Byzantine calendar	6096–6097
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3284 or 3224     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3285 or 3225
Coptic calendar	304–305
Discordian calendar	1754
Ethiopian calendar	580–581
Hebrew calendar	4348–4349
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	644–645
- Shaka Samvat	509–510
- Kali Yuga	3688–3689
Holocene calendar	10588
Iranian calendar	34 BP – 33 BP
Islamic calendar	35 BH – 34 BH
Javanese calendar	477–478
Julian calendar	588 DLXXXVIII
Korean calendar	2921
Minguo calendar	1324 before ROC 民前1324年
Nanakshahi calendar	−880
Seleucid era	899/900 AG
Thai solar calendar	1130–1131
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 714 or 333 or −439     — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 715 or 334 or −438

The monastery of Skellig Michael (Ireland)

Events

Byzantine Empire

• Byzantine-Sassanid War: Unpaid Byzantine troops mutiny against Priscus (magister militum per Orientem). King Hormizd IV begins a Persian offensive, but is defeated at Martyropolis (modern Turkey).
• Summer – Guaram I of Iberia, Georgian prince in exile, is sent by Emperor Maurice to the city of Mtskheta (Georgia). He restores the monarchy and is bestowed with the Byzantine court title of curopalates.

Europe

• The Franks and Burgundians under King Guntram and his nephew Childebert II invade Northern Italy, but suffer a disastrous defeat against the Lombards.
• The Lombard Kingdom (Italy) is converted to Roman Catholicism under the rule of King Authari (approximate date).

Britain

• Æthelric succeeds his father Ælla as king of Deira in Northern England (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).[1]

Persia

• First Perso-Turkic War: A Persian army (12,000 men) under Bahrām Chobin, supported by Cataphracts (heavy cavalry), ambush the invading Turks, and win a great victory at the Battle of the Hyrcanian Rock.[2]

Asia

• Emperor Wéndi of the Sui Dynasty prepares a campaign against the Chen Dynasty. He amasses 518,000 troops along the northern bank of the Yangtze River, stretching from Sichuan to the Pacific Ocean.[3]

Religion

• The Skellig Michael monastery is founded on a steep rocky island off the coast of Ireland (approximate date).
• The Guanghua Temple in Putian (China) is built during the Chen Dynasty, under Emperor Chen Wu Di.[4]

Births

• Eligius, bishop and saint (approximate date)
• Suintila, king of the Visigoths (approximate date)
• Yu Zhining, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 665)

Deaths

• Áed mac Bricc, Irish bishop and saint
• Ælla, king of Deira (approximate date)
• Agericus, bishop of Verdun
• Fridianus, Irish prince and saint
• Li Ezi, empress of Northern Zhou (b. 536)
• Monulph, bishop of Maastricht

References

1. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS A) s.a. 588
2. Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F–O, (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007), p. 463
3. Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 176
4. Litchi City Putian Archived May 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine