599

This article is about the year 599. For the number (and other uses), see 599 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	560s  570s  580s  – 590s –  600s  610s  620s
Years:	596 597 598 – 599 – 600 601 602

599 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

599 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	599 DXCIX
Ab urbe condita	1352
Armenian calendar	48 ԹՎ ԽԸ
Assyrian calendar	5349
Bahá'í calendar	-1245–-1244
Bengali calendar	6
Berber calendar	1549
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1143
Burmese calendar	-39
Byzantine calendar	6107–6108
Chinese calendar	戊午年十一月廿九日 (3235/3295-11-29) — to — 己未年十二月初九日 (3236/3296-12-9)
Coptic calendar	315–316
Ethiopian calendar	591–592
Hebrew calendar	4359–4360
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	655–656
- Shaka Samvat	521–522
- Kali Yuga	3700–3701
Holocene calendar	10599
Iranian calendar	23 BP – 22 BP
Islamic calendar	24 BH – 23 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2932
Minguo calendar	1313 before ROC 民前1313年
Thai solar calendar	1142

Year 599 (DXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 599 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

Europe

• Raedwald becomes king of East Anglia (approximate date).

Asia

• The Chinese win the war at Ordos.
• Yemen is finally conquered by Sassanian Iran (approximate date).

America

• The Maya city of Palenque is defeated by Kalakmul.

Births

• January 23 – Emperor Taizong of Tang China
• Ali ibn Abi Talib, cousin of Muhammad, first Shī‘ah Imām, and fourth Sunni Caliph (approximate date)

Deaths

• Taliesin, Welsh poet
• King Hye of Baekje
• Chief Hanwawa of the African Kingla