559

Year 559 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 559 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.

559 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	559 DLIX
Ab urbe condita	1312
Armenian calendar	8 ԹՎ Ը
Assyrian calendar	5309
Balinese saka calendar	480–481
Bengali calendar	−35 – −34
Berber calendar	1509
Buddhist calendar	1103
Burmese calendar	−79
Byzantine calendar	6067–6068
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3256 or 3049     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3257 or 3050
Coptic calendar	275–276
Discordian calendar	1725
Ethiopian calendar	551–552
Hebrew calendar	4319–4320
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	615–616
- Shaka Samvat	480–481
- Kali Yuga	3659–3660
Holocene calendar	10559
Iranian calendar	63 BP – 62 BP
Islamic calendar	65 BH – 64 BH
Javanese calendar	447–448
Julian calendar	559 DLIX
Korean calendar	2892
Minguo calendar	1353 before ROC 民前1353年
Nanakshahi calendar	−909
Seleucid era	870/871 AG
Thai solar calendar	1101–1102
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 685 or 304 or −468     — to — ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 686 or 305 or −467

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Winter – The Kutrigurs and Huns under Zabergan cross the frozen Danube River, and invade the Balkans. They raid Thracia and Macedonia, but are driven back near Constantinople by a Byzantine force under Belisarius.
• Battle of Melantias: Outside the city walls of Constantinople, Belisarius defeats the combined "barbarians" with his veteran cavalry (bucellarii), and a few thousand hastily raised levies.

Britain

• Glappa succeeds his father Ida as king of Bernicia (North East England). During his rule, Anglian settlers expand their territory in what is now southeastern Scotland.

Asia

• First successful human flight: a kite carrying Yuan Huangtou lands in the proximity of Ye, China. Emperor Wen Xuan Di sponsors the flight; Yuan is taken prisoner; other imprisoned kite flyers also fly, but those die and Yuan survives. Yuan is executed afterwards.^[1]
• Wen Di, age 37, succeeds his uncle Chen Wu Di as emperor of the Chen dynasty. During his reign, he consolidates the state against the rebellious warlords.
• The city-state Ara Gaya, a member of the Gaya confederacy, surrenders to Silla in the Korean peninsula.
• Pyeongwon becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.^[2]

Births

• Reccared I, king of the Visigoths (d. 601)
• Wu Shihuo, father of Wu Zetian (d. 635)
• Xuan Di, emperor of Northern Zhou (d. 580)

Deaths

• Chen Wu Di, emperor of the Chen dynasty (b. 503)
• Ida, king of Bernicia (approximate date)
• Leonard of Noblac, Frankish abbot and saint
• Wen Xuan Di, emperor of Northern Qi (b. 529)