589

Europe

 * — The overflows its banks, flooding the church of St. Zeno and damaging the walls of.
 * The hits.

Asia

 * : The ends; Jiankang, the last of the , is completely destroyed; China is reunited under the.
 * The Chinese scholar-official Yan Zhitui makes the first reference to the use of in human history.

Religion

 * The, called by King of the , renounces  and embraces.
 * The Council of Narbonne is held.

Births

 * , Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint

Deaths

 * , emperor of Japan
 * —, the of