584

Year 584 (DLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 584 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	560s 570s 580s 590s 600s
Years:	581 582 583 584 585 586 587

584 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	584 DLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1337
Armenian calendar	33 ԹՎ ԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	5334
Balinese saka calendar	505–506
Bengali calendar	−9
Berber calendar	1534
Buddhist calendar	1128
Burmese calendar	−54
Byzantine calendar	6092–6093
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3280 or 3220     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3281 or 3221
Coptic calendar	300–301
Discordian calendar	1750
Ethiopian calendar	576–577
Hebrew calendar	4344–4345
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	640–641
- Shaka Samvat	505–506
- Kali Yuga	3684–3685
Holocene calendar	10584
Iranian calendar	38 BP – 37 BP
Islamic calendar	39 BH – 38 BH
Javanese calendar	473–474
Julian calendar	584 DLXXXIV
Korean calendar	2917
Minguo calendar	1328 before ROC 民前1328年
Nanakshahi calendar	−884
Seleucid era	895/896 AG
Thai solar calendar	1126–1127
Tibetan calendar	阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 710 or 329 or −443     — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 711 or 330 or −442

The Exarchate of Ravenna (orange) in 584

Events

By place

Europe

• September – King Chilperic I dies after a 23-year reign over a territory extending from Aquitaine to the northern seacoast of what later will be France. He is stabbed to death while returning from a hunt near Chelles. His wife Fredegund, who has paid for his assassination, seizes his wealth, flees to Paris with her son Chlothar II, and persuades the nobles to accept him as legitimate heir while she serves as regent, continuing her power struggles with Guntram, king of Burgundy, and her sister Brunhilda, queen mother of Austrasia.
• The Lombards re-establish a unified monarchy after a 10-year interregnum (Rule of the Dukes). Threatened by a Frankish invasion that the dukes have provoked, they elect Authari (son of Cleph) as their king and give him the capital of Pavia (Northern Italy).
• The Visigoths under King Liuvigild capture the city of Seville, after a siege of nearly 2 years. His rebellious son Hermenegild seeks refuge in a church at Córdoba, but is arrested and banished to Tarragona. His wife Inguld flees with her son to Africa.
• The Exarchate of Ravenna is founded, and organised into a group of duchies, mainly coastal cities on the Italian Peninsula. The civil and military head of these Byzantine territories is the exarch (governor) in Ravenna.
• The Slavs push south on the Balkan Peninsula — partly in conjunction with the Avars under their ruler (khagan) Bayan I — ravaging the cities Athens and Corinth, and threatening the Long Walls of Constantinople.[1]
• King Eboric is deposed by his mother (second husband Andeca) who becomes the new ruler of the Kingdom of Galicia (Northern Spain) and the Suevi.
• Gundoald, illegitimate son of Chlothar I, tries to expend his territory from Brive-la-Gaillarde (Burgundy) and proclaims himself king (approximate date).

Britain

• Battle of Fethanleigh: King Ceawlin of Wessex is defeated by the Britons. He ravages the surrounding countryside in revenge (approximate date).

Asia

• Emperor Wéndi of the Sui Dynasty organises the Grand Canal. He builds ships for transportation and grain stores are located at strategic points.[2]

Births

• Amand, bishop and saint (approximate date)
• Chlothar II, king of the Franks (d. 629)
• Yang Zhao, prince of the Sui Dynasty (d. 606)

Deaths

• April 15 – Ruadhán of Lorrha, Irish abbot and saint
• Chilperic I, king of Neustria (or Soissons)
• Deiniol, bishop of Bangor (Wales)
• Ingund, wife of Visigoth prince Hermenegild
• Maurus, Roman abbot and saint (b. 512)
• Approximate date – Bridei I, king of the Picts

References

1. Rome at War (AD 293–696), p. 60. Michael Whitby, 2002. ISBN 1-84176-359-4
2. Imperial Chinese Armies (p. 33). C.J. Peers, 1995. ISBN 978-1-85532-514-2