556

This article is about the year 556. For the number, see 556 (number). For other uses, see 556 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	520s  530s  540s  – 550s –  560s  570s  580s
Years:	553 554 555 – 556 – 557 558 559

556 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

556 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	556 DLVI
Ab urbe condita	1309
Armenian calendar	5 ԹՎ Ե
Assyrian calendar	5306
Bahá'í calendar	-1288–-1287
Bengali calendar	-37
Berber calendar	1506
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1100
Burmese calendar	-82
Byzantine calendar	6064–6065
Chinese calendar	乙亥年十二月初四日 (3192/3252-12-4) — to — 丙子年十一月十五日 (3193/3253-11-15)
Coptic calendar	272–273
Ethiopian calendar	548–549
Hebrew calendar	4316–4317
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	612–613
- Shaka Samvat	478–479
- Kali Yuga	3657–3658
Holocene calendar	10556
Iranian calendar	66 BP – 65 BP
Islamic calendar	68 BH – 67 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2889
Minguo calendar	1356 before ROC 民前1356年
Thai solar calendar	1099

Year 556 (DLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 556 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.

Events

By place

Europe

• Cynric and Ceawlin of Wessex fight against the Britons at Beranburh.

Asia

• The Western Wei Dynasty ends in China.

By topic

Religion

• April 16 – Pope Pelagius I succeeds Pope Vigilius as the 60th pope.

Births

• Gao Bainian

Deaths

• February 21 – Maximianus of Ravenna, bishop
• Empress Erzhu Ying'e, widow of Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei
• Xiao Yuanming
• Yuwen Tai