The world in 586 AD — what happened that year

14 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.

What happened

110,000 adult men were conscripted to build the Great Wall; it was completed in twenty days. (Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals 隋書卷001 帝紀開皇6年2月)

He moved the capital to Jangan fortress. (Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) 卷19 平原王 28年)

Leovigild converts to Catholicism on his sickbed and dies (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 8.XLVI)

Among the citizens of Tours, the war of vengeance between Sicarius and Chramnesind begins. (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 7.XLVII)
Latarius, sent as count of Marseille, pressures Bishop Theodorus (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 8.XII)
Two islands in the sea burn and sink (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 8.XXIV)
A pond near Vannes turns to blood (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 8.XXV)
Ennodius appointed count of Tours and Poitiers (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 8.XXVI)
Guntram raises an army to conquer Septimania (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 8.XXX)
At Easter in Rouen, Praetextatus is stabbed at Fredegund's instigation (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 8.XXXI)
Fire in the city of Paris (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 8.XXXIII)
Magnovald is killed at the Metz court by royal order (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 8.XXXVI)
Childebert's son Theudebert is born; the bishop of Trier baptizes him (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 8.XXXVII)