580
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In the year 580
Transportation
Byzantine emperor Maurice Tiberius is the first to mention stirrups in the West. See also 568 Transportation.
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This article is about the year 580. For the number, see 580 (number). For other uses, see 580 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 550s 560s 570s – 580s – 590s 600s 610s |
| Years: | 577 578 579 – 580 – 581 582 583 |
| 580 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 580 DLXXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1333 |
| Armenian calendar | 29 ԹՎ ԻԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5330 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1264–-1263 |
| Bengali calendar | -13 |
| Berber calendar | 1530 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1124 |
| Burmese calendar | -58 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6088–6089 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年十一月廿九日 (3216/3276-11-29) — to —
庚子年十二月初十日(3217/3277-12-10) |
| Coptic calendar | 296–297 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 572–573 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4340–4341 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 636–637 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 502–503 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3681–3682 |
| Holocene calendar | 10580 |
| Iranian calendar | 42 BP – 41 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 43 BH – 42 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2913 |
| Minguo calendar | 1332 before ROC 民前1332年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1123 |
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Year 580 (DLXXX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 580 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
- Ethelbert becomes king of Kent.
- The Roman Senate sends an embassy to Constantinople; this is its last recorded act.
Asia
- The ancient Chinese city of Ye is razed to the ground by Yang Jian.
Births
- Uthman Ibn Affan
- Umar
- Pepin I, Frankish mayor of the palace
- Maximus the Confessor, Christian monk
- Wei Zheng, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 643)
- Dao Xin
Deaths
References
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