558

Year 558 (DLVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 558 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.

558 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	558 DLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1311
Armenian calendar	7 ԹՎ Է
Assyrian calendar	5308
Balinese saka calendar	479–480
Bengali calendar	−36 – −35
Berber calendar	1508
Buddhist calendar	1102
Burmese calendar	−80
Byzantine calendar	6066–6067
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3255 or 3048     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3256 or 3049
Coptic calendar	274–275
Discordian calendar	1724
Ethiopian calendar	550–551
Hebrew calendar	4318–4319
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	614–615
- Shaka Samvat	479–480
- Kali Yuga	3658–3659
Holocene calendar	10558
Iranian calendar	64 BP – 63 BP
Islamic calendar	66 BH – 65 BH
Javanese calendar	446–447
Julian calendar	558 DLVIII
Korean calendar	2891
Minguo calendar	1354 before ROC 民前1354年
Nanakshahi calendar	−910
Seleucid era	869/870 AG
Thai solar calendar	1100–1101
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 684 or 303 or −469     — to — ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 685 or 304 or −468

King Chlothar I (c. 497–561)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• May 7 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses due to an earthquake. Emperor Justinian I orders the dome to be rebuilt.

Europe

• The Avars and the Slavs occupy the Hungarian Plain on the Balkans. The threat of Avar domination prompts the Lombards to migrate to Italy.^[1]
• December 13 – King Chlothar I reunites the Frankish Kingdom after his brother Childebert I dies, becoming sole ruler of the Franks.
• December 23^{[citation needed]} – Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks.
• Conall mac Comgaill becomes king of Dál Riata, a Gaelic overkingdom on the western coast of Scotland.

Asia

• Istämi, ruler of the Western Turkic Khaganate, establishes diplomatic relations with the Byzantine Empire.

By topic

Religion

• December 23 – The Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés is dedicated by Germain, bishop of Paris.
• The Bangor Abbey is founded by the Irish abbot Comgall in Northern Ireland (approximate date).

Births

• Gao Yan, prince of Northern Qi (d. 571)
• Yu Shinan, calligrapher and official (d. 638)

Deaths

• May 1 – Marcouf, missionary and saint
• May 13 – John the Silent, bishop and saint
• May 15 – Hilary of Galeata, Christian monk
• December 13 – Childebert I, king of the Franks^[2]
• Abraham of Kratia, Christian monk (approximate date)
• Empress Dugu, Northern Zhou consort
• Gabrán mac Domangairt, king of Dál Riata
• Jing Di, emperor of the Liang Dynasty (b. 543)