597
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This article is about the year 597. For the number (and other uses), see 597 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 560s 570s 580s – 590s – 600s 610s 620s |
| Years: | 594 595 596 – 597 – 598 599 600 |
| 597 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 597 DXCVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1350 |
| Armenian calendar | 46 ԹՎ ԽԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5347 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1247–-1246 |
| Bengali calendar | 4 |
| Berber calendar | 1547 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1141 |
| Burmese calendar | -41 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6105–6106 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙辰年十二月初八日 (3233/3293-12-8) — to —
丁巳年十一月十七日(3234/3294-11-17) |
| Coptic calendar | 313–314 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 589–590 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4357–4358 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 653–654 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 519–520 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3698–3699 |
| Holocene calendar | 10597 |
| Iranian calendar | 25 BP – 24 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 26 BH – 25 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 597 DXCVII |
| Korean calendar | 2930 |
| Minguo calendar | 1315 before ROC 民前1315年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1140 |
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Year 597 (DXCVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 597 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 topic
[edit] Education
- The King's School is founded in Canterbury.
[edit] Religion
- Saint Augustine becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Pope Gregory I sends a delegation of monks under the Roman Augustine to England to convert the English.
[edit] Births
- Emperor Kōtoku, emperor of Japan (d. 654)
- Chu Suiliang, Chinese Chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 658)
