Years: 585 586 587 588 - 589 - 590 591 592 593

Decades: 550s 560s 570s - 580s - 590s 600s 610s

Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century

Contents

1 Events 2 Environmental change 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• End of the Chen Dynasty and complete destruction of Jiankang (Nanjing), the last of the Southern dynasties in China; China reunited under the Sui Dynasty.
• Regional council called by King Reccared at Toledo in Visigothic kingdom renounces Arianism and embraces Catholicism.

Environmental change

• October 17 - The Adige River overflows its banks, flooding the church of St. Zeno and damaging the walls of Verona.
• Plague visits Rome.

Births

Deaths

• Emperor Sushun of Japan