588
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This article is about the year 588. For the number, see 588 (number). For other uses, see 588 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 550s 560s 570s – 580s – 590s 600s 610s |
| Years: | 585 586 587 – 588 – 589 590 591 |
| 588 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 588 DLXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1341 |
| Armenian calendar | 37 ԹՎ ԼԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5338 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1256–-1255 |
| Bengali calendar | -5 |
| Berber calendar | 1538 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1132 |
| Burmese calendar | -50 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6096–6097 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年十一月廿七日 (3224/3284-11-27) — to —
戊申年十二月初八日(3225/3285-12-8) |
| Coptic calendar | 304–305 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 580–581 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4348–4349 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 644–645 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 510–511 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3689–3690 |
| Holocene calendar | 10588 |
| Iranian calendar | 34 BP – 33 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 35 BH – 34 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2921 |
| Minguo calendar | 1324 before ROC 民前1324年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1131 |
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Year 588 (DLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 588 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.
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[edit] By place
[edit] Byzantine Empire
[edit] Europe
- Æthelric becomes first King of Northumbria, after the kingdom is formed from the union of the two small Anglian kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira.
[edit] Asia
- The First Perso-Turkic War is fought.
- Shivadeva ascends the throne of the Lichchhavi dynasty in Nepal.
- A large meteorite impact kills 10 people in rural China.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- The Lombards are converted to Christianity.
- The Skellig Michael monastery is founded on a steep rocky island off the coast of Ireland.
[edit] Births
- Saint Eligius (approximate date)
- Yu Zhining
[edit] Deaths
- May 1 – Marcouf, Christian saint
- Aella of Deira
- Saint Aed Macbricc
- Empress Dowager Li Ezi
