The world in 591 AD — what happened that year

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

What happened

In the eleventh month of the fourth year, Ki no Omaro and others are made generals, lead clan retainers, and are stationed in Tsukushi for affairs concerning Silla and Imna (Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) 日本書紀卷第廿一崇峻紀 4年 단락26)

At Wanborough a great slaughter of Britons took place, and Ceawlin was driven out of the kingdom. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Giles/Ingram 1847 A.D. 591 항 (pg657.txt 줄 1272))
Simon, the Armenian bishop, comes to Tours and brings news of the fall of Antioch (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 10.XXIV)
Plague in the Marseille region; famine in Angers, Nantes, and Le Mans (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 10.XXV)
Bishop Ragnemod of Paris dies; the Syrian merchant Eusebius obtains the bishopric (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 10.XXVI)
Fredegund comes to Paris to Guntram and asks him to baptize her son (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 10.XXVIII)
The abbot Aredius of Limoges dies (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 10.XXIX)
A headache plague in the Tours and Nantes region (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 10.XXX)