592

This article is about the year 592. For the number, see 592 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	560s  570s  580s  – 590s –  600s  610s  620s
Years:	589 590 591 – 592 – 593 594 595

592 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

592 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	592 DXCII
Ab urbe condita	1345
Armenian calendar	41 ԹՎ ԽԱ
Assyrian calendar	5342
Bengali calendar	−1
Berber calendar	1542
Buddhist calendar	1136
Burmese calendar	−46
Byzantine calendar	6100–6101
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3288 or 3228     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 3289 or 3229
Coptic calendar	308–309
Discordian calendar	1758
Ethiopian calendar	584–585
Hebrew calendar	4352–4353
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	648–649
- Shaka Samvat	514–515
- Kali Yuga	3693–3694
Holocene calendar	10592
Iranian calendar	30 BP – 29 BP
Islamic calendar	31 BH – 30 BH
Julian calendar	592 DXCII
Korean calendar	2925
Minguo calendar	1320 before ROC 民前1320年
Seleucid era	903/904 AG
Thai solar calendar	1134–1135

King Childebert II (570–595)

Year 592 (DXCII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 592 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 regains the Byzantine stronghold Singidunum (modern Belgrade) from the Avars. By counter-invading their homelands on the Balkans, Byzantine troops increase their pay by pillaging in hostile territory.

Europe

• January 28 – King Guntram, age 59, dies after a 31-year reign and is succeeded by his nephew Childebert II who becomes ruler of Burgundy. He is buried at St. Marcel Church in Chalon-sur-Saône (Eastern France).
• Ariulf, previously Lombard commander in the war against Persia, becomes the second Duke of Spoleto (Central Italy).

Britain

• Battle of Woden's Burg: After the mass killing at Woden's Burg, near Marlborough (South West England), Ceawlin is deposed as king of the West Saxons. His son Cuthwine is taken prisoner and goes into exile.
• Ceol succeeds his uncle Ceawlin after his defeat at Woden's Burg. He becomes king of Wessex (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).

Asia

• Summer – Emperor Wéndi reduces the taxes due to an overflowing abundance of food and silk in the governmental stores. He sends messengers around central China, redistributing land to give the poor farming land.
• December 8 – Emperor Sushun of Japan is murdered after 5 years on the throne by agents of his rival Umako Soga, who is jealous of the emperor's power. He is succeeded by Suiko, widow of the late emperor Bidatsu.
• Winter – Empress Suiko moves the imperial capital of Japan to Asuka-Toyura Palace (Nara Prefecture) during the Asuka period.

By topic

Literature

• Gregory, bishop of Tours, completes his Historia Francorum ("History of the Franks").

Births

• 'Amr ibn al-'As, Arab general (approximate date)
• Asmā' bint Abi Bakr, companion of Muhammad
• Cutha Cathwulf, prince of Wessex (approximate date)
• Itta, wife of Pepin of Landen (d. 652)
• Khalid ibn al-Walid, Arab general (d. 642)
• Xu Jingzong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 672)

Deaths

• Faroald I, duke of Spoleto (Italy)
• January 28 – Guntram, king of Burgundy
• December 8 – Sushun, emperor of Japan