576
Calendar year
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Year 576 (DLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 576 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.
| Gregorian calendar | 576 DLXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1329 |
| Armenian calendar | 25 ԹՎ ԻԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5326 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 497–498 |
| Bengali calendar | −18 – −17 |
| Berber calendar | 1526 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1120 |
| Burmese calendar | −62 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6084–6085 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3273 or 3066 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3274 or 3067 |
| Coptic calendar | 292–293 |
| Discordian calendar | 1742 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 568–569 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4336–4337 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 632–633 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 497–498 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3676–3677 |
| Holocene calendar | 10576 |
| Iranian calendar | 46 BP – 45 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 47 BH – 46 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 464–465 |
| Julian calendar | 576 DLXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 2909 |
| Minguo calendar | 1336 before ROC 民前1336年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −892 |
| Seleucid era | 887/888 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1118–1119 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 702 or 321 or −451 — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 703 or 322 or −450 |
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine–Sassanid War: A Persian army under King Khosrau I breaks through the Caucasus into Anatolia (modern Turkey). They attack the cities of Theodosiopolis and Caesarea, but are thwarted. Khosrau is forced to retreat and sacks Sebasteia. On the way home, he is intercepted by a Byzantine force under Justinian (magister militum of the East), and severely defeated near Melitene. The royal baggage is captured, and many Persians drown, while escaping across the Euphrates.[1]
Europe
- Baduarius, son-in-law of the Byzantine emperor Justin II, is sent to Italy to resist the Lombard conquest. He leads an aborted counter-assault against the Lombards and dies soon after.[2]
- The Visigoths under King Liuvigild establish the capital of their kingdom in Toledo, located in central Spain (approximate date).
Asia
- The Göktürks under Tardu cross the Cimmerian Bosporus into the Crimea, and besiege the city of Panticapaeum (Ukraine).
- Jinji becomes king of the Korean kingdom of Silla.[3]
Births
- Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, friend of Muhammad (approximate date)
- Gao Shilian, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 647)
Deaths
- May 28 – Saint Germain, bishop of Paris
- Baduarius, Byzantine aristocrat (approximate date)