| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 581 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 581 DLXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1334 |
| Armenian calendar | 30 ԹՎ Լ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5331 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 502–503 |
| Bengali calendar | −12 |
| Berber calendar | 1531 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1125 |
| Burmese calendar | −57 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6089–6090 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3278 or 3071 — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3279 or 3072 |
| Coptic calendar | 297–298 |
| Discordian calendar | 1747 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 573–574 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4341–4342 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 637–638 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 502–503 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3681–3682 |
| Holocene calendar | 10581 |
| Iranian calendar | 41 BP – 40 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 42 BH – 41 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 470–471 |
| Julian calendar | 581 DLXXXI |
| Korean calendar | 2914 |
| Minguo calendar | 1331 before ROC 民前1331年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −887 |
| Seleucid era | 892/893 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1123–1124 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 707 or 326 or −446 — to — 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 708 or 327 or −445 |
Year 581 (DLXXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 581 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.