559
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This article is about the year 559. For the number (and other uses), see 559 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 520s 530s 540s – 550s – 560s 570s 580s |
| Years: | 556 557 558 – 559 – 560 561 562 |
| 559 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 559 DLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1312 |
| Armenian calendar | 8 ԹՎ Ը |
| Assyrian calendar | 5309 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1285–-1284 |
| Bengali calendar | -34 |
| Berber calendar | 1509 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1103 |
| Burmese calendar | -79 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6067–6068 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年十二月初七日 (3195/3255-12-7) — to —
己卯年十一月十七日(3196/3256-11-17) |
| Coptic calendar | 275–276 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 551–552 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4319–4320 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 615–616 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 481–482 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3660–3661 |
| Holocene calendar | 10559 |
| Iranian calendar | 63 BP – 62 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 65 BH – 64 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2892 |
| Minguo calendar | 1353 before ROC 民前1353年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1102 |
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Year 559 (DLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 559 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.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- The Kutrigurs and Huns under Zabergan invade and raid Byzantine territory, but are driven back near Constantinople by Belisarius.
[edit] Europe
[edit] Asia
- First successful human flight: a manned kite lands in the proximity of Ye, China.[1]
- Ara Gaya, a member of the Gaya confederacy, surrenders to Silla in the Korean peninsula.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Northern Qi Wen Xuan Di, Chinese ruler
- Chen Wu Di, Chinese ruler
- Ida, king of Bernicia (traditional date)
[edit] References
- ^ （永定三年）使元黄头与诸囚自金凤台各乘纸鸱以飞，黄头独能至紫陌乃堕，仍付御史中丞毕义云饿杀之。 (Rendering: [In the 3rd year of Yongding, 559], Gao Yang conducted an experiment by having Yuan Huangtou and a few prisoners launch themselves from a tower in Ye, capital of the Northern Qi. Yuan Huangtou was the only one who survived from this flight, as he glided over the city-wall and fell at Zimo [western segment of Ye] safely, but he was later executed.) Zizhi Tongjian 167.
