576

This article is about the year 576. For the number (and other uses), see 576 (number). For the TV standard, see 576i.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	540s  550s  560s  – 570s –  580s  590s  600s
Years:	573 574 575 – 576 – 577 578 579

576 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

576 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	576 DLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1329
Armenian calendar	25 ԹՎ ԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	5326
Bahá'í calendar	-1268–-1267
Bengali calendar	-17
Berber calendar	1526
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1120
Burmese calendar	-62
Byzantine calendar	6084–6085
Chinese calendar	乙未年十一月十五日 (3212/3272-11-15) — to — 丙申年十一月廿五日 (3213/3273-11-25)
Coptic calendar	292–293
Ethiopian calendar	568–569
Hebrew calendar	4336–4337
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	632–633
- Shaka Samvat	498–499
- Kali Yuga	3677–3678
Holocene calendar	10576
Iranian calendar	46 BP – 45 BP
Islamic calendar	47 BH – 46 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2909
Minguo calendar	1336 before ROC 民前1336年
Thai solar calendar	1119

Year 576 (DLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) 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.

Events

By place

Crimea

• The Gokturks besiege Panticapaeum in the Crimea.

Europe

• The Visigoths establish the capital of their kingdom in Toledo (present-day Spain).

Byzantine Empire

• The Byzantines under general Justinian inflict a heavy defeat on Persian shah Khosrau I at Melitene.

Births

• Gao Shilian, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 647)

Deaths

• Saint Germain of Paris
• Aminah bint Wahb, the mother of Muhammad