589

This page relates to the year 589 Calendrier Julien.

Events

After having launched an attack combined on water and ground against the capital of the Chen on the Yangzi Jiang, Sui Wendi takes the South and joins together the China under the Dynastie Sui.
the Sui undertake the rebuilding of the country (bored Grand Channel, construction of a new capital, Chang' year (Ch' ang-year), current the Xi' year, on a checkerboard plan). They restore the centralized administrative system of the Han and the official contests for the recruitment of the civils servant.

In central Asia, with the head of a vast empire, the Western Turks, based in Dzungarie (Djoungarie), take the road check of the Soie.
the king of Perse Khosro II is deposited by a military revolt and flees with Constantinople to require of the assistance.
Machrouk succeeds his/her Axoum brother as viceroy of the Yemen but is killed shortly after by the Perses.

May 4th: Opening of IIIe Council of Tolède. The king of the Visigoths Récarède Ier imposes Catholicism on it on his subjects under the influence of Saint Léandre, archbishop of Seville. The religion Catholique is proclaimed in all Spain. The Arianisme is virtually extinct, only the Lombards still support it. The council issues that the newborns of a mixed marriage of Christians and Juifs would be baptized of force.
May 15th: The king of the Lombards Authari wife Théodelinde of Bavaria to Vérone.
October 17th: believed of the Adige which damages the walls of Vérone.

Council of Narbonne: the priests must know to read. The population of Narbonne is made up of Goths, Romans, Juifs, Greeks and Syrians.
Gontran Ier attacks the Septimanie but is overcome definitively by the Visigoths close to Carcassonne.
Following the revolt of the moniales of Holy-Cross of Poitiers under the control of the princess Chrodielde, a synod with place in November. The princess makes beat the bishops who excommunicated it.
the Lombards take Bénévent and make of it the capital of a powerful duchy.
Of important floods of the the Tiber causes in the area of Rome, the death of very many people, cuts down Roman houses and monuments, and carries the food reserves. This catastrophe was followed of a great food shortage on which will be grafted an epidemic of Peste (Peste of Justinien) at the beginning of winter 589, which will cause the death of even more victims.

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