586

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Spring - Emperor Maurice rejects a peace proposal of the Persians, in exchange for renewed payments in gold.
• Battle of Solachon: A Byzantine army under command of Philippicus defeats the Sassanid Persians, near Dara.
• The Avars besiege Thessalonica, the second city of the Byzantine Empire.
• The Vlachs are first mentioned in a Byzantine chronicle.

  Europe

• April 21 - King Liuvigild dies at Toledo after an 18-year reign, and is succeeded by his second son Reccared I.
• April/May: Reccared I becomes King of the West Goths following the death of his father, Liuvigild.
• Slavs advance to the gates of Thessaloniki and the Peloponnese.
• Avars destroy a lien of Roman camps along the Danubian Limes, including Oescus and Ratiaria.

  By topic

Art

• The Page with the Crucifixion, from the "Rabbula Gospels", at the Monastery of St. John in Beth Zagba, is completed. It is now kept at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy.

  Religion

• Japanese Buddhism comes under attack as a "foreign" religion.
• Saint Comgall founds an abbey in Bangor, Northern Ireland.
• King Custennin of Dumnonia is converted to Christianity.