560s

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Millennium: 1st millennium
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  • 560
  • 561
  • 562
  • 563
  • 564
  • 565
  • 566
  • 567
  • 568
  • 569
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  • Establishments
  • Disestablishments

The 560s decade ran from January 1, 560, to December 31, 569.

Events

560

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By place[]

Europe[]
  • Alboin succeeds his father Audoin after his death, as king of the Lombards.
Britain[]

By topic[]

Religion[]
  • Columba quarrels with Finnian of Moville over authorship of a psalter, leading to a pitched battle the next year.

561

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By place[]

Europe[]
  • November 29 – King Chlothar I ("the Old") dies at Compiègne at age 64. The Merovingian Dynasty is continued by his four sons (Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I), who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Paris, Orléans, Reims and Soissons, respectively.
Britain[]
  • The Battle of Cúl Drebene (modern Ireland) is fought between the Northern and Southern Uí Néill (approximate date).
Asia[]
  • Winter – Wu Cheng Di succeeds his brother Xiao Zhao Di, who dies from injuries suffered while hunting, as Chinese emperor of Northern Qi.
Americas[]

By topic[]

Religion[]
  • March 4 – Pope Pelagius I dies in Rome after a five-year reign, and is succeeded by John III as the 61st pope.
  • Jnanagupta, a Buddhist monk from Gandhara (Pakistan), begins translating Buddhist texts into Chinese.
  • The First Council of Braga is held. The council condemns the doctrine of Priscillianism.

562

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By place[]

Byzantine Empire[]
  • Emperor Justinian I signs a peace treaty with the Persian Empire. The status quo ante is restored, with Lazica (modern Georgia) in Byzantine hands.
  • Belisarius stands trial for corruption in Constantinople, possibly with Procopius acting as praefectus urbi. He is found guilty and sent to prison.
  • End of the Lazic War: In the Fifty-Year Peace Treaty, King Khosrau I recognises Lazica as a Byzantine vassal state for an annual payment of 5,000 pounds of gold each year.[1]
  • December 23 – Justinian I re-consecrates Hagia Sophia after its dome is rebuilt. Paul the Silentiary, Byzantine poet, writes an epic poem (Ekphrasis).
Europe[]
  • King Sigebert I repels an attack on Austrasia by the Avars at Regensburg (Germany). He moves his capital from Reims to Metz (approximate date).
Asia[]
  • Spring – Xiao Ming Di, age 20, succeeds his father Xuan Di as emperor of the Chinese Liang Dynasty.
  • Silla, by order of king Jinheung, wages war upon Gaya (Three Kingdoms of Korea) and conquers it.
  • The secondary capital Taiyuan in Northern Qi is rebuilt and becomes a center of Buddhism.
Mesoamerica[]
  • The Maya state of Caracol (Belize) defeats King Wak Chan K'awiil (Double Bird) of Tikal in battle[2] during the First Tikal-Calakmul War, ending his dynasty.

563

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By place[]

Byzantine Empire[]
  • Emperor Justinian I pardons Belisarius; he orders his release from prison, and restores his properties and honours. He permits the general to live in obscurity, and gives him a veterans' pension.
  • The new Hagia Sophia (cost: 20,000 pounds of gold[3]), with its numerous chapels and shrines, octagonal dome and mosaics, becomes the centre and most visible monument of Eastern Orthodoxy.
Europe[]
  • Tauredunum event:[4] A mountain landslide into the Rhone river destroys a fort and two villages, and creates a tsunami in Lake Geneva. The wave which reaches Lausanne is thirteen metres high, and eight metres high by the time it hits Geneva. Describing the event, Marius Aventicensis writes that the tsunami "devastated very old villages with their men and cattle, it even destroyed many sacred places", and swept away "the bridge in Geneva, windmills and men".[5]

By topic[]

Religion[]
  • Columba, Irish missionary monk, travels to Scotland with twelve companions. He lands on the Kintyre Peninsula, near Southend, and begins his evangelising mission to the Picts. On the island of Iona, he founds a monastery (Iona Abbey) on the west coast in the Inner Hebrides.

564

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By place[]

Britain[]
Mesoamerica[]

By topic[]

Religion[]
  • Samson of Dol, one of seven founder saints of Brittany, attends a council in Paris and witnesses several royal decrees (approximate date).

565

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By place[]

Byzantine Empire[]
  • November 15 – Justin II succeeds his uncle Justinian I as emperor of the Byzantine Empire. He begins his reign by refusing subsidies to the Avars, who conduct several large-scale raids through the Balkan Peninsula.
  • Justin II recalls his cousin Justin (pretender to the throne) to Constantinople; after accusations against him, he is placed under house arrest.
  • Justin II sends his son-in-law Baduarius (magister militum) with a Byzantine army, to support the Gepids in their war against the Lombards.[7][8][9]
  • The Madaba Map is made in the Byzantine church of Saint George. The floor mosaic contains the depiction of the Holy Land (approximate date).
Britain[]
  • Columba, Irish missionary, spots the Loch Ness Monster on the River Ness present day Scotland and saves the life of a Pict (approximate date).
Europe[]
  • Summer – A war erupts between Alboin, the king of the Lombards, and King Cunimund, the leader of the Gepids. (approximate date).
Asia[]

By topic[]

Arts and sciences[]
  • Agathias begins to write a history, beginning where Procopius finished his work.
Religion[]

566

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By place[]

Byzantine Empire[]
  • A Byzantine army, under command of Baduarius, assists the Gepids in their war against the Lombards. The Byzantines win the first battle in the lower Danube (Moesia), but Gepid King Cunimund refuses to hand back the fortress city of Sirmium (modern Serbia), as he had promised.
  • Emperor Justin II, facing an empty treasury, breaks the treaty with the Gepids that has existed since 565. King Alboin of the Lombards makes an alliance with the Avars under Bayan I, at the expense of tough conditions. They demand a tenth of the Lombards' cattle and half of the war booty.
  • Justin II sends his cousin Justin to exile in Alexandria, where he is installed as Augustal prefect of Egypt. There he is murdered in his sleep, and his head is cut off and brought to Constantinople (probably by assignment of Empress Sophia).[10]
Europe[]
Francia[]

A poet from Italy named Venantius Fortunatus arrives at the Merovingian court at Metz. With a strong grasp of traditional Roman poetry, Fortunatus impresses and entertains the Frankish royalty and aristocracy. The success of a Latin poet in Francia suggests that Roman culture persisted well after the Roman Empire disintegrated in Gaul in the late 5th century.[11]

Asia[]
  • Fei Di, age 12, succeeds his father Wen Di, as emperor of the Chinese Chen Dynasty. He honors his grand-aunt Zhang Yao'er with the title of Grand Empress, and she becomes his regent.
  • Kirtivarman I succeeds his father Pulakeshin I as king of the Chalukya Dynasty (India). During his rule he completes the subjugation of the Kadambas and annexes the port of Goa.
Unidentified[]
  • A major volcanic eruption occurs in the Antarctic.[12]

567

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By place[]

Europe[]
  • The Lombard–Gepid War (567) ends with a Lombard-Avar victory, and the annihilation of the Gepids.
  • Sigebert I, king of Austrasia, marries Brunhilda, and his half brother Chilperic I marries Galswintha, both daughters of the Visigothic king Athanagild.
  • King Charibert I dies without an heir; his realm (region Neustria and Aquitaine) is divided between his brothers Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I.[13]
  • Liuva I succeeds his predecessor Athanagild after an interregnum of five months and becomes king of the Visigoths.[14]
China[]
  • Three Disasters of Wu: Emperor Wu Di of the Northern Zhou dynasty initiates the second persecution of Buddhists in China. This persecution continues until he is succeeded by his son Emperor Xuan.

By topic[]

Religion[]

568

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By place[]

Europe[]
  • Spring – The Lombards, led by King Alboin, cross the Julian Alps. Their invasion of Northern Italy is almost unopposed; withered Byzantine forces, that remain in the Po Valley and are based at Ravenna, are no match for the overwhelming Lombard incursion. Residents of the Italian countryside flee at the Lombards' approach. Some retreat to the barrier islands along the shore of the Northern Adriatic Sea, where they establish permanent settlements: the nascent city of Venice.[15]
  • The Byzantines abandon present-day Lombardy and Tuscany, to establish a frontier march in the hills south of Ravenna (still known as Le Marche). Bavarians, Sarmatians, Saxons and Taifali, join the invasion en route. As they advance, the vacuum left behind them on the Balkan Peninsula is filled by Avars, Bulgars and Slavs.
  • Sigebert I, king of Austrasia, repels a second attack from the Avars. His half brother Chilperic I strangles his wife Galswintha at the instigation of his mistress Fredegund.
  • Liuvigild is declared co-king and heir after the second year of reign of his brother Liuva I. He becomes ruler over the Visigoths in Hispania Citerior (Eastern Spain).[16]
  • Mummolus, Gallo-Roman prefect, defeats the Lombards at Embrun and expels them from Provence (Southern Gaul).
  • Avar Khaganate attempts to expel Kutrigurs who had fled the Göktürks, ordering them to go south of the Sava River; those who leave generally fall under rule of the Turks.
Britain[]
Asia[]
  • The Turks and Sassanids succeed in destroying the Hepthalites on the eastern frontier (approximate date).
  • A Turkish khan sends emissaries to the Byzantine Empire (approximate date).

By topic[]

Religion[]
  • Emperor Justin II and his wife Sophia send the Cross of Justin II ("Vatican Cross") to Rome, to improve the relations with the Byzantine Empire.[17]
  • Paulinus I, patriarch of Aquileia, flees with the treasures of his church and transfers them to the island of Grado.

569

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By place[]

Byzantine Empire[]
  • Emperor Justin II and his wife Sophia send a relic of the "True Cross" to the Frankish princess Radegund, who has founded a monastery at Poitiers.
  • The Garamantian Kingdom (modern Libya) signs a peace treaty with the Byzantine Empire. The capital city of Garama is converted to Christianity.[18]
Europe[]
  • September – The Lombards conquer Forum Iulii (Cividale del Friuli) in northeastern Italy. Later in the year, the Lombards conquer Milan.
  • Gisulf I, nephew of Alboin, is appointed as the first duke of Friuli (approximate date).
Arabia[]
  • Al-Mundhir III succeeds his father Al-Harith V and becomes king of the Ghassanids.

By topic[]

Religion[]
  • The Nubian kingdom of Alodia is converted to Christianity by Byzantine missionaries (according to John of Ephesus).
  • John of Ephesus completes his "Biographies of Eastern Saints" (approximate date).
  • November 19 – In Poitiers the "Vexilla Regis" is first sung during the Procession.

Significant people[]

Births[]

Transcluding articles: 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, and 569

560

561

563

564

  • Hermenegild, Visigoth prince (approximate date)
  • Li Baiyao, Chinese official and historian (d. 647)

565

566

  • Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, uncle of Muhammad (approximate date)
  • Li Yuan, Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty (d. 635)
  • Xiao, empress of the Sui Dynasty (approximate date)
  • Yuchi Chifan, empress of Northern Zhou (d. 595)

567

  • Ingund, wife of Hermenegild (or 568)

568

  • Feng Deyi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 627)
  • Ingund, princess, spouse of Visigoth prince Hermenegild (d. 584)
  • Liu Wenjing, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 619)

569

  • Yángdi, emperor of the Sui Dynasty (d. 618)[20]

Deaths[]

Transcluding articles: 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, and 569

560

561

562

563

  • January –Cutzinas, Berber chieftain
  • Hou Andu, general of the Chen Dynasty (b. 520)
  • Wang, empress of the Liang Dynasty

564

565

566

567

568

  • Adda, king of Bernicia (approximate date)
  • Galswintha, queen consort of Neustria, married to Chilperic I (b. 540)

569

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  2. ^ Arlen Chase and Diane Chase 2008. "What the Hieroglyphs Don't Tell You": Archaeology and History at Caracol, Belize. Mayab 20: 103-108
  3. ^ P. Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: "A New History of Rome and the Barbarians", p. 283
  4. ^ "Lake Geneva 'may face tsunami risk'". Daily Telegraph. 28 October 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  5. ^ "Des chercheurs reconstituent le tsunami du lac Léman de l’an 563", Le Monde, 28 October 2012
  6. ^ Photos of Tulum Archeological Site
  7. ^ Rovagnati 2003, p. 30
  8. ^ Jarnut 1995, p. 22.
  9. ^ Martindale 1992, s.v. Baduarius (2), p. 64–65.
  10. ^ Martindale, Jones & Morris (1992) p. 753–754
  11. ^ Wickham, Chris (2005). Framing the Early Middle Ages. p. 175.
  12. ^ Connor, Steve (2014-07-07). "Our explosive past is written in the Antarctic ice". i. London. p. 17.
  13. ^ a b Charibert I, Edward James, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, ed. Oliver Nicholson, (Oxford University Press, 2018), 317.
  14. ^ Isidore, chapter 46; translated by Donini and Ford, p. 22
  15. ^ Traditional date as given in William J. Langer, ed. An Encyclopedia of World History
  16. ^ John of Biclaro, Chronicle 10. Translated by Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain, second edition (Liverpool: University Press, 1990), p. 60
  17. ^ McClanan, p. 167
  18. ^ John of Biclar, Chronicle 3, Chronica Minora 2, p. 212
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  21. ^ "Cynric | king of Wessex". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
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