| Centuries: | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |
| Decades: | 540s 550s 560s 570s 580s 590s 600s |
| Years: | 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 |
| 578 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 578 DLXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1331 |
| Armenian calendar | 27 ԹՎ ԻԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1266 – -1265 |
| Bengali calendar | -15 |
| Berber calendar | 1528 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1122 |
| Burmese calendar | -60 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6086 – 6087 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁酉年十二月初八日 (3214/3274-12-8) — to —
戊戌年十一月十七日(3215/3275-11-17) |
| Coptic calendar | 294 – 295 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 570 – 571 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4338 – 4339 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 633 – 634 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 500 – 501 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3679 – 3680 |
| Holocene calendar | 10578 |
| Iranian calendar | 44 BP – 43 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 45 BH – 44 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2911 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1121 |
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Tiberius II Constantine succeeds Justin II as Byzantine Emperor.
Asia
- Kongo Gumi, the world's oldest continuously operating company (578–2006), is founded in Osaka, Japan.
Deaths
- July 30—Jacob Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa
- October 5—Justin II, Roman emperor
- Northern Zhou Wu Di, Chinese ruler
- John Malalas, Byzantine chronicler
- Bhavaviveka, Indian Madhyamaka Scholar
- Saint Brendan, a popular Irish saint
- Abdul Muttalib, grandfather of Prophet Muhammad who founded Islam
- Wu Mingche
- Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou
- Yuwen Xian
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