582

This article is about the year 582. For the number, see 582 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	550s  560s  570s  – 580s –  590s  600s  610s
Years:	579 580 581 – 582 – 583 584 585

582 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

582 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	582 DLXXXII
Ab urbe condita	1335
Armenian calendar	31 ԹՎ ԼԱ
Assyrian calendar	5332
Bengali calendar	−11
Berber calendar	1532
Buddhist calendar	1126
Burmese calendar	−56
Byzantine calendar	6090–6091
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3278 or 3218     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3279 or 3219
Coptic calendar	298–299
Discordian calendar	1748
Ethiopian calendar	574–575
Hebrew calendar	4342–4343
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	638–639
- Shaka Samvat	504–505
- Kali Yuga	3683–3684
Holocene calendar	10582
Iranian calendar	40 BP – 39 BP
Islamic calendar	41 BH – 40 BH
Julian calendar	582 DLXXXII
Korean calendar	2915
Minguo calendar	1330 before ROC 民前1330年
Seleucid era	893/894 AG
Thai solar calendar	1124–1125

Emperor Maurice (582–602)

Year 582 (DLXXXII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 582 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

• August 14 – Emperor Tiberius II Constantine, age 47, dies (possibly deliberately poisoned food) at Constantinople after a 4-year reign during which Thrace and Greece have been inundated by the Slavs. He is succeeded by his son-in-law, Maurice, former notary who has commanded the Byzantine army in the war against the Persian Empire.
• Autumn – Maurice elevates John Mystacon to magister militum per Orientem. He sends a Byzantine expeditionary force to Arzanene (Armenia) where they fight a pitched battle at the river Nymphius (Batman River).

Europe

• Siege of Sirmium: The Avars under their ruler (khagan) Bayan I, aided by Slavic auxiliary troops, capture the city of Sirmium after almost a 3-year siege. Bayan establishes a new base of operations within the Byzantine Empire from which he plunders the Balkan Peninsula.
• Gundoald, illegitimate son of Clotaire I, arrives with the financial support of Constantinople in southern Gaul. He claims as usurper king the cities Poitiers and Toulouse, part of the Frankish Kingdom (approximate date).
• The Visigoths under king Liuvigild capture the city of Mérida (western central Spain), which has under political control of its popular bishop Masona. He is arrested and exiled for 3 years.

Persia

• A Persian army under Tamkhosrau cross the Euphrates River and attack the city of Constantina (modern Turkey), but he is defeated by the Byzantines and killed.

Asia

• Spring – Emperor Xuan Di, age 52, dies after a 13-year reign and is succeeded by his incompetent son Houzhu who becomes the new ruler of the Chen Dynasty.
• Emperor Wéndi of the Sui Dynasty orders the building of a new capital, which he calls Daxing (Great Prosperity), on a site southeast of Chang'an (modern Xi'an).

By topic

Religion

• April 11 – John Nesteutes becomes the 33rd bishop or patriarch of Constantinople.

Births

• Arnulf of Metz, Frankish bishop and saint (approximate date)
• Li Mi, Chinese rebel leader during the Sui Dynasty (d. 619)

Deaths

• Agathias, Greek poet and historian (approximate date)
• Ashina, empress of Northern Zhou (b. 551)
• April 5 – Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople
• Justinian, Byzantine general (magister militum)
• Tamkhosrau, Sassanid Persian general (marzban)
• August 14 – Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor
• Xuan Di, emperor of the Chen Dynasty (b. 530)