599

599 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar599
DXCIX
Ab urbe condita1352
Armenian calendar48
ԹՎ ԽԸ
Assyrian calendar5349
Balinese saka calendar520–521
Bengali calendar5–6
Berber calendar1549
Buddhist calendar1143
Burmese calendar−39
Byzantine calendar6107–6108
Chinese calendar戊午年 (Earth Horse)
3296 or 3089
    — to —
己未年 (Earth Goat)
3297 or 3090
Coptic calendar315–316
Discordian calendar1765
Ethiopian calendar591–592
Hebrew calendar4359–4360
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat655–656
 - Shaka Samvat520–521
 - Kali Yuga3699–3700
Holocene calendar10599
Iranian calendar23 BP – 22 BP
Islamic calendar24 BH – 23 BH
Javanese calendar488–489
Julian calendar599
DXCIX
Korean calendar2932
Minguo calendar1313 before ROC
民前1313年
Nanakshahi calendar−869
Seleucid era910/911 AG
Thai solar calendar1141–1142
Tibetan calendarས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Earth-Horse)
725 or 344 or −428
    — to —
ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Earth-Sheep)
726 or 345 or −427
The Maya city of Palenque (modern Mexico)

Year 599 (DXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday 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

Byzantine Empire

  • Emperor Maurice refuses to pay ransom for 12,000 Byzantine soldiers taken prisoner by the Avars. Their leader Bayan I orders the execution of the prisoners, and slaughters them all. His failure to buy back the captives destroys Maurice's popularity with the Byzantine troops in the Balkan Peninsula.[1]
  • Summer – Balkan Campaign: The Byzantine generals Priscus and Comentiolus join their forces at Singidunum (modern Belgrade), and move downstream to the fortress city of Viminacium (Serbia). The Byzantines cross the Danube River and invade Upper Moesia, where they defeat the Avars in open battle.
  • Priscus pursues the fleeing Avar tribes and invades their homeland in Pannonia. He devastates the land east of the Tisza River, deciding the war for the Byzantines and ending the Avar and Slavic incursions across the Danube.
  • Autumn – Comentiolus reopens the Gate of Trajan pass, near Ihtiman (Bulgaria). This strategic mountain pass, whose fortress "Stipon" defends the border between the provinces Thrace and Macedonia, is not used for decades.

Europe

  • Callinicus, governor (exarch) of Ravenna, repulses attacks of the South Slavs in Istria (Croatia). The region is pillaged, but the Byzantines drive them all out.
  • Callinicus breaks the truce by kidnapping the Lombard daughter of King Agilulf,[2] beginning a war with the Exarchate of Ravenna (approximate date).

Britain

Persia

  • King Khosrau II sends a Persian expedition to South Arabia and conquers Yemen. He establishes a military base to control the sea trade with the East (approximate date).

Asia

  • Tardu declares himself to be ruler (khagan) of the united Turkic Khaganate (east and west).[3] His new status is not recognised widely in the empire.
  • Beop becomes king of the Korean kingdom of Baekje.[4]

Mesoamerica

By topic

Religion


Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 32. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.
  2. ^ Paul the Deacon, History, 4.20; translated by Foulke, p. 165
  3. ^ Melek Tekin: Türk tarihi, p. 87, Milliyet yayinları, 1991
  4. ^ a b "List of Rulers of Korea". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
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