583

Year 583 (DLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 583 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.

583 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	583 DLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1336
Armenian calendar	32 ԹՎ ԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	5333
Balinese saka calendar	504–505
Bengali calendar	−11 – −10
Berber calendar	1533
Buddhist calendar	1127
Burmese calendar	−55
Byzantine calendar	6091–6092
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3280 or 3073     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3281 or 3074
Coptic calendar	299–300
Discordian calendar	1749
Ethiopian calendar	575–576
Hebrew calendar	4343–4344
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	639–640
- Shaka Samvat	504–505
- Kali Yuga	3683–3684
Holocene calendar	10583
Iranian calendar	39 BP – 38 BP
Islamic calendar	40 BH – 39 BH
Javanese calendar	472–473
Julian calendar	583 DLXXXIII
Korean calendar	2916
Minguo calendar	1329 before ROC 民前1329年
Nanakshahi calendar	−885
Seleucid era	894/895 AG
Thai solar calendar	1125–1126
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Water-Tiger) 709 or 328 or −444     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Water-Hare) 710 or 329 or −443

View of Monemvasia (Peloponnese)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Maurice decides to end the annual tribute to the Avars, a mounted people who have swept across Russia and threatened the Balkan Peninsula. They capture the cities of Singidunum (modern Belgrade) and Viminacium (Moesia).

Europe

• King Liuvigild lays siege to Seville (Southern Spain), and forms an alliance with the Byzantines. He summons his rebellious son Hermenegild back to Toledo, and forces him to abandon the Chalcedonian Faith.
• The city of Monemvasia (Peloponnese) is founded by people seeking refuge from the Slavs and Avars.
• Eboric (also called Euric) succeeds his father Miro as king of the Suevi (Hispania Gallaecia).

Arabia

• Muhammad, age 12, accompanies his uncle Abu Talib during trading journeys to Syria.

Mesoamerica

• Yohl Ikʼnal succeeds Kan Bahlam I as queen of the Maya city of Palenque (Mexico).^[1]

By topic

Medicine

• Smallpox begins spreading from China to Japan and Korea (approximate date).

Births

• Abu Ubaidah, companion of Muhammad (d. 639

• Liuva II, king of the Visigoths (d. 603)
• Theodosius, Byzantine co-emperor (approximate date)
• Umar, companion of Muhammad (d. 644) and second Caliph of Rashidun Caliphate
• Xiao Xian, prince of the Liang dynasty (d. 621)

Deaths

• February 1 – Kan Bahlam I, ruler of Palenque (b. 524)
• Miro, king of the Suevi (approximate date)