596

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	570s 580s 590s 600s 610s
Years:	593 594 595 596 597 598 599

596 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	596 DXCVI
Ab urbe condita	1349
Armenian calendar	45 ԹՎ ԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	5346
Balinese saka calendar	517–518
Bengali calendar	3
Berber calendar	1546
Buddhist calendar	1140
Burmese calendar	−42
Byzantine calendar	6104–6105
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3293 or 3086     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3294 or 3087
Coptic calendar	312–313
Discordian calendar	1762
Ethiopian calendar	588–589
Hebrew calendar	4356–4357
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	652–653
- Shaka Samvat	517–518
- Kali Yuga	3696–3697
Holocene calendar	10596
Iranian calendar	26 BP – 25 BP
Islamic calendar	27 BH – 26 BH
Javanese calendar	485–486
Julian calendar	596 DXCVI
Korean calendar	2929
Minguo calendar	1316 before ROC 民前1316年
Nanakshahi calendar	−872
Seleucid era	907/908 AG
Thai solar calendar	1138–1139
Tibetan calendar	阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 722 or 341 or −431     — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 723 or 342 or −430

Settlements of Anglo-Saxon people in Britain

Year 596 (DXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 596 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 uses the city of Marcianopolis (modern Bulgaria) as a military base of operations on the lower Danube River, against the Slavs on the Balkans.

Britain

• Battle of Raith: An invading force of Angles lands on the Fife coast near Raith (Kirkcaldy) and defeats an alliance of Scots, Britons and Picts, under King Áedán mac Gabráin of Dál Riata (Scotland).

Asia

• Emperor Wéndi sends diplomatic letters to the royal court of Goguryeo (Korea). He demands the cancellation of the military alliance with the Eastern Turk Khanate, and the raiding of Sui border regions.

By topic

Religion

• Gregorian Mission: Augustine of Canterbury lands with a group of missionaries on the Isle of Thanet (South East England). He is welcomed by King Æthelberht of Kent, who accepts baptism along with the rest of his court at the behest of his Christian Frankish wife, Bertha. Æthelbert assigns Augustine and his 40 monks a residence at Canterbury (Kent), where they found a Benedictine monastery that will make the town a centre of Christianity (or 597).

Births

• Cui Dunli, general of the Tang dynasty (d. 656)
• Daoxuan, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 667)
• Gao Jifu, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 654)
• Kōtoku, emperor of Japan (d. 654)
• Liu Xiangdao, official of the Tang dynasty (d. 666)

Deaths

• Ebrulf, Frankish hermit and abbot (b. 517)
• Marius Aventicensis, bishop of Aventicum (b. 532)