__NOTOC__ Year 585 ( DLXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 585 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

By place

Europe

* King Childebert II, age 15, takes up his sole rule of

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. A Frankish army under King Guntram marches to

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( Pyrenees), and besieges the citadel of Saint-Bertrand. * July – Gundoald, Merovingian usurper king, and his followers are defeated during the siege of Saint-Bertrand. He is executed and Guntram stages a triumphal entry into Orléans. * The Visigoths under King Liuvigild devastate the Suevic Kingdom in Gallaecia (northwest Spain). After the conquest, Liuvigild reintroduces the Arian Church among the Sueves. * Winter –

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strikes Gaul (according to

Gregory of Tours Gregory of Tours (30 November 538 – 17 November 594 AD) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of the area that had been previously referred to as Gaul by the Romans. He was born Georgius Florenti ...

). Traders plunder the people by selling scarcely a peck of

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or half measure of wine for the third of a gold piece.

Persia

* The Persian commander, Kardarigan ("black hawk"), begins an unsuccessful siege of Monokarton (modern Turkey).

Britain

* Hussa succeeds his brother Frithuwald as king of Bernicia (approximate date). * Creoda becomes king of Mercia (according to the ''

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'').

Asia

September 15 Events Pre-1600 * 994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes. *1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by ...

–

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, age 47, dies of smallpox after a 13-year reign, and is succeeded by his brother Yōmei as the 31st emperor of

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. * Emperor Xiao Jing Di succeeds his father Xiao Ming Di as ruler of the Liang Dynasty (

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By topic

Religion

* King Wideok of Baekje ( Korea) sends an official escort (bearing tribute), along with a master of Buddhist meditation, a reciter of Buddhist

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s, a temple architect, and a sculptor of Buddhist images, to the Chinese court of the

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(approximate date). * The Armenian bishop Kardutsat goes with 7 priests, on a missionary trip to the

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s north of the Caucasus. He succeeds in baptizing many Huns and in translating books into their language. *

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, Irish missionary, gathers 12 companions for his journey to Britain, probably to the

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coast. After a short time, he crosses the English Channel and lands in Brittany ( France). * Zhiyi, Chinese monk, returns to the city of Jinling, where he completes his commentarial works on the Lotus Sutra.

Births

* Du Ruhui, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 630) * Edwin of Northumbria, king of Deira and Bernicia (d.

633 __NOTOC__ Year 633 ( DCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 633 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar er ...

) *

Goar of Aquitaine Saint Goar of Aquitaine ( la, Goaris; 585 – 6 July 649 AD) was a priest and hermit of the seventh century. He was offered the position of Bishop of Trier, but prayed to be excused from the position. Goar is noted for his piety and is revered ...

, priest and hermit (approximate date) * Yang Jian, imperial prince of the

(d.

618 __NOTOC__ Year 618 ( DCXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 618 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ...

) * Yuchi Gong, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 658) *

Khalid Ibn Al-Walid Khalid ibn al-Walid ibn al-Mughira al-Makhzumi (; died 642) was a 7th-century Arab military commander. He initially headed campaigns against Muhammad on behalf of the Quraysh. He later became a Muslim and spent the remainder of his career in ...

, general of the rashidun Caliphate (d.

642 __NOTOC__ Year 642 ( DCXLII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 642 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ...

)

Deaths

April 13 Events Pre-1600 *1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1601–1900 *1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...

– Hermenegild, Visigothic prince (or

586 __NOTOC__ Year 586 ( DLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 586 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar ...

) * September 14 – Bidatsu, emperor of

(b.

538 Year 538 ( DXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Iohannes without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1291 '' Ab ...

) Brown, Delmer. (1979)
''Gukanshō,'' pp. 262-263
* Cassiodorus, Roman

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and writer (approximate date) * Frithuwald, king of Bernicia (approximate date) * Gundoald, Merovingian usurper king (approximate date) * John of Ephesus, Armenian bishop (approximate date) *

Rigunth Rigunth (c. 569 C.E – after 589 C.E), also known as Rigundis, was a Frankish princess, daughter of the Merovingian King Chilperic I and Fredegund. Biography Rigunth was the eldest child and only recorded daughter of Chilperic and Fredegund. ...

, daughter of

Chilperic I Chilperic I (c. 539 – September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of the Frankish king Clotaire I and Queen Aregund. Life Immediately after the death of his father in 561, he en ...

(b.

570 __NOTOC__ Year 570 ( DLXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 570 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar e ...

) * Xiao Ming Di, emperor of the Liang Dynasty (b.

542 __NOTOC__ Year 542 ( DXLII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. From this year forward, the appointment of particular Roman consuls was abandoned and the office was merged with t ...

)

References

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