559
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- For the North American area code, see area code 559.
| 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 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1285 – -1284 |
| Berber calendar | 1509 |
| 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 | 614 – 615 |
| - 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 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1102 |
[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] Notes
- ^ （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.
