* March 16, 597 BC — Babylonians capture Jerusalem following a siege, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.

" head of the exile ", Greek: Æchmalotarcha ) refers to the leaders of the Diaspora Jewish community in Babylon following the deportation of King Jeconiah and his court into Babylonian exile after the first fall of Jerusalem in 597 BCE and augmented after the further deportations following the destruction of the kingdom of Judah in 587 BCE.

* Jack Brownsword – according to Sir Stanley Matthews, the best full-back in the Second Division, who played 597 games for United, scored numerous penalties ( 50 goals ) and continued with the Club following his retirement as a player.

This edict states that, following Saichō ’ s request, the ordinands would be divided between two curricula: the shanagō course, centering on the study of the Mahavairocana Sūtra ( this was the Mikkyō curriculum, shana being the abbreviation for Birushana, the Japanese transliteration of Vairocana ), and the shikangō course, based on the study of the Mo-ho chih-kuan, the seminal work of the T ’ ien-t ’ ai patriarch Chih-i 智顗 ( 538 – 597 ) ( this

Judah prospered as an Assyrian vassal state, despite a disastrous rebellion against Sennacherib ), but in the last half of the 7th century BCE Assyria suddenly collapsed, and the ensuing competition between the Egyptian and Neo-Babylonian empires for control of Palestine led to the destruction of Judah in a series of campaigns between 597 and 582.

Nebuchadnezzar soon dealt with these rebellions, capturing Jerusalem in 597 BCE and deposing King Jehoiakim, then in 587 BCE due to rebellion, destroying both the city and the temple, and deporting many of the prominent citizens along with a sizable portion of the Jewish population of Judea to Babylon.

* 599 – 597 BC: Siege of Jerusalem ( 597 BC ) – Nebuchadnezzar II crushed a rebellion in the Kingdom of Judah and other cities in the Levant which had been sparked by the Neo-Babylonians failed invasion of Egypt in 601.

* Threats against the " unfaithful shepherds " ( i. e., the false prophets ), the promise of peace and of the real shepherd ( after 597 ), and warnings against false prophets and godless priests ( perhaps in the time of Jehoiakim ; 23: 1-8, 9-40 );

The last part of Jeremiah 49 is an apocalyptic oracle against Elam which states that Elam will be scattered to the four winds of the earth, but " will be, in the end of days, that I will return their captivity ," a prophesy self-dated to the first year of Zedekiah ( 597 BC ).

After his mother's death and burial in Saint Denis Basilica in Paris ( 597 ), Clotaire II continued the struggle against Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia, and finally triumphed in 613 when Brunhilda's own followers betrayed the old queen into his hands.

Although the film suffered negative publicity in the form of two lawsuits against the filmmakers, filed by Lori Madrid and Stanley Mouse respectively, that were ultimately dismissed, Monsters, Inc. proved to be a major box office success from its release by Walt Disney Pictures on November 2, 2001, generating over $ 525, 366, 597 worldwide.

The AITUC-CITU front won 6, 597 votes against 4, 361 votes for the INTUC-affiliated Visakha Steel Employees ' Congress.

Before this the team had largely been quite competitive despite the run of defeats, but the wheels came off as the side suffered a number of large defeats such as 34 – 0 against play-off challengers Catalans Dragons, 46 – 12 against Wakefield Wildcats and a 0 – 68 thrashing against Leeds Rhinos in front of a Newport crowd of 5, 597.

In the March 2008 parliamentary election, Movement for Democratic Change candidate Shuah Mudiwa very narrowly won the seat, receiving 7, 597 votes against 7, 577 votes for Chris Mushohwe, the Minister of Transport and Communications, according to official results.

In Esther 2: 5 – 6, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE: " Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

The deportation and exile of an unknown number of Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar II, starting with the first deportation in 597 BCE and continuing after the fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple in 587 BCE, resulted in dramatic changes to Jewish culture and religion.

In the passage, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar ( in 597 BC ).

; 597 BC: first deportation to Babylon

After a reign of only three months and ten days, Jeconiah's reign came to an end by Babylonian intervention, and Jeconiah and the elite of Judah were taken into Babylonian exile in 597 BCE as part of the first deportation, Jeconiah continued to be regarded as the legitimate king of Judah by the Jews in Babylon.

On March 15 / 16th, 597 BCE, Jeconiah, his entire household and three thousand prestigious Jews, were exiled to Babylon.

As quoted above, Thiele said that the 25th anniversary of Jeconiah's captivity was April 25, 573 BC ( 10 Nisan 573 ), implying that he began the trip to Babylon on 10 Nisan 597, 24 years earlier.

He also assumed that Jeconiah's captivity or exile was not to be measured from Adar of 597 BC, the month Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem and its king according to the Babylonian Chronicle, but in the next month, Nisan, when Thiele assumed Jeconiah began the trip to Babylon.

From 597 BCE onwards, there were three distinct groups of Hebrews: a group in Babylon and other parts of the Middle East, a group in Judaea, and another group in Egypt.

* Siege of Jerusalem ( 597 BC ) by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon

Jerusalem surrendered without major bloodshed to Babylon in 597.

* 597 BC — Exile of prominent Jews ( including Ezekiel ) to Babylonia

Because this offers an alternative explanation to Thiele's interpretation of Ezekiel 40: 1, and because Thiele's chronology for Jeconiah seems incompatible with the records of the Babylonian Chronicle, the infobox below dates the end of Jeconiah's reign to 2 Adar ( 16 March ) 597 BC, the date of the first capture of Jerusalem as given in the Babylonian records.

It lasted 60 years ( 597 – 537 BC ) from the deportation of the 10, 000 elite () including Jehoiachin and Ezekiel though there is a discrepancy with Jeremiah's numbers of exiles ().

The first Archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine ( not to be confused with St Augustine of Hippo ), who arrived in Kent in 597 AD, having been sent by Pope Gregory I on a mission to the English.

According to the Babylonian Chronicles, published by Donald Wiseman in 1956, it was established that Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem the first time on 2 Adar ( 16 March ) 597 BC.

Depending on the interpretation of Esther 2: 5 – 6, Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish was carried away from Jerusalem with Jeconiah by Nebuchadnezzar, in 597 BCE.

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

Columba died on Iona and was buried in AD 597 by his monks in the abbey he created.

Augustine ’ s mission from Rome is known to have arrived in 597, and according to Bede, it was this mission that converted Æthelberht.

Laurence was part of the Gregorian mission originally dispatched from Rome in 595 to convert the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity ; he landed at Thanet, Kent, with Augustine in 597, or, as some sources state, first arrived in 601 and was not a part of the first group of missionaries.

The average rate for a one room apartment was 597. 46 CHF ( US $ 480, £ 270, € 380 ), a two room apartment was about 792. 33 CHF ( US $ 630, £ 360, € 510 ), a three room apartment was about 1044. 64 CHF ( US $ 840, £ 470, € 670 ) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 2024. 55 CHF ( US $ 1620, £ 910, € 1300 ).

Later another army was sent to Yemen, and in 597 / 8 Southern Arabia became a province of the Sassanid Empire under a Persian satrap.

Year 597 ( DXCVII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

The illuminated manuscript Book of Kells was probably at least begun at Iona, although not by Columba as legend has it, as it dates from about 800 ( it may have been commissioned to mark the bicentennial of Columba's death in 597 ).

The 2011 population of the Sydney census area, was 31, 597, making it the largest population centre on Cape Breton Island.

At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Orestes ( or, less frequently, year 597 Ab urbe condita ).

He ascended the throne in 597 BCE, after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia ( to whom the Kingdom of Judah was then subject ) exiled King Jeconiah ( Zedekiah's nephew ) to Babylonia.

Zedekiah was made king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar II in 597 BC at the age of twenty-one.

If Zedekiah's years are by accession counting, whereby the year he came to the throne was considered his " zero " year and his first full year in office, 597 / 596, was counted as year one, Zedekiah's eleventh year, the year the city fell, would be 587 / 586.

This reckoning makes year 598 / 597 BC, the year Zedekiah was installed by Nebuchadnezzar according to Judah's Tishri-based calendar, to be year " one ," so that the fall of Jerusalem in his eleventh year would have been in year 588 / 587 BC, i. e. in the summer of 587 BC.

His mother, Fredegund, was regent until her death in 597, at which time the thirteen-year-old Chlothar began to rule for himself.

Founded in 597, the cathedral was completely rebuilt 1070-77.

As of the 2010 census its population was 53, 597.