578

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	550s 560s 570s 580s 590s
Years:	575 576 577 578 579 580 581

578 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	578 DLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1331
Armenian calendar	27 ԹՎ ԻԷ
Assyrian calendar	5328
Balinese saka calendar	499–500
Bengali calendar	−15
Berber calendar	1528
Buddhist calendar	1122
Burmese calendar	−60
Byzantine calendar	6086–6087
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3275 or 3068     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3276 or 3069
Coptic calendar	294–295
Discordian calendar	1744
Ethiopian calendar	570–571
Hebrew calendar	4338–4339
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	634–635
- Shaka Samvat	499–500
- Kali Yuga	3678–3679
Holocene calendar	10578
Iranian calendar	44 BP – 43 BP
Islamic calendar	45 BH – 44 BH
Javanese calendar	467–468
Julian calendar	578 DLXXVIII
Korean calendar	2911
Minguo calendar	1334 before ROC 民前1334年
Nanakshahi calendar	−890
Seleucid era	889/890 AG
Thai solar calendar	1120–1121
Tibetan calendar	阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 704 or 323 or −449     — to — 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 705 or 324 or −448

Emperor Justin II (c. 520–578)

Year 578 (DLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 578 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

• Byzantine–Sassanid War: A Byzantine army under command of Maurice (magister militum per Orientem) invades Upper Mesopotamia, and raids on both sides of the Tigris. He deports 70,000 captives from Hyrcania to Cyprus, and installs military colonists to guard the strategic locations.
• October 5 – Emperor Justin II dies after several periods of insanity. On the advice of his wife Sophia, he has raised his general Tiberius to the rank of co-emperor (Caesar). From December 574 he has ruled jointly with Sophia, and now succeeds them as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

Asia

• Summer – Emperor Wu Di engages in military campaigns on two fronts: against the invading Göktürks to the north and against the Chen dynasty in the south.
• Wu Di, age 35, dies from an illness, and is succeeded by his eldest son Xuan Di as emperor of Northern Zhou.
• Kongō Gumi, the world's oldest construction company (578–2006), is founded in Osaka (Japan).

Central America

• October 22 – Tzi-B'alam, who had been the ruler of the Mayan city state of Copán in Honduras, dies after a 25-year reign that began in May 553.

• November 15 – K'ak' Chan Yopaat, becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city state of Copán in Honduras, and rules until his death 49 years later in 628.

Deaths

• July 30 – Jacob Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa
• October 5 – Justin II, Byzantine emperor
• Abdul Muttalib, grandfather of Islamic prophet Muhammad
• Wu Di, emperor of Northern Zhou (b. 543)
• Wu Mingche, general of the Chen dynasty (b. 512)
• Wuffa, king of East Anglia (approximate date)
• Yuwen Xian, prince of Northern Zhou (b. 544)
• Approximate date -
  • Bhavyaviveka, Indian Madhyamaka scholar
  • Hatim al-Tai, Arabian poet
  • John Malalas, Byzantine chronicler (b. c.491)