The 590s decade ran from January 1, 590, to December 31, 599.
590
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By place
Persia
- Spring – King Hormizd IV dismisses Bahrām Chobin as commander (Eran spahbed). He revolts and marches with the support of the Persian army towards Ctesiphon.
- February 15 – Hormizd IV is deposed and assassinated by Persian nobles. Having ruled since 579, he is succeeded by his son Khosrau II as king of the Persian Empire.
- September – Bahrām Chobin defeats the inferior forces of Khosrau II near Ctesiphon. He seizes the throne and proclaims himself as king Bahrām IV of Persia.
By topic
Religion
- February 7 – Pope Pelagius II falls victim to the plague that devastated Rome. After an 11-year reign he is succeeded by Gregory I, age 50, as the 64th pope, and the first from a monastic background.
- Egidius, bishop of Reims, is tried at Metz before a council of bishops for a conspiracy against King Childebert II; he is found guilty and exiled to Strasbourg.
- Gregory I begins a vigorous program of rebuilding aqueducts and restoring Rome. He feeds the citizens with doles of grain, as under Roman imperial rule.
- Columbanus, Irish missionary, obtains from King Guntram the Gallo-Roman castle Luxovium (Luxeuil-les-Bains), where he founds the Abbey of Luxeuil.[3]
- John of Biclaro, Visigoth chronicler, finishes his "Chronicle" before he is appointed bishop of Girona (Catalonia, Spain).
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590
- Benjamin, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (approximate date)
- Boran, Queen of Persia (d. 632)
- Braulio, bishop of Zaragoza (d. 651)
- Cedda, prince of Wessex (approximate date)
- Dervan, prince of the Sorbs (approximate date)
- Eanfrith, king of Bernicia (d. 634)
- Harsha, Indian emperor (d. 647)
- Jajang, Korean monk (d. 658)
- Judicaël, high king of Domnonée (approximate)
- Kavadh II, king of the Sasanian Empire (d. 628)
- Secundus of Non, Lombard abbot
- Sichilde, Frankish queen (d. 627)
- Theodore Rshtuni, Armenian general
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Martindale, Jones & Morris 1992, p. 1293
Gumilev L.N.Bahram Chubin, p. 229–230
Usanova M. Ismoil Somonii waqfnomasi, p. 29
Ian Wood, The Merovingian Kingdoms 450–751, p. 91
A Chronicle of England (1864), James Edmund Doyle, p. 26
Paul the Deacon, History, 4.20; translated by Foulke, p. 165
Melek Tekin: Türk tarihi, p. 87, Milliyet yayinları, 1991