560
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This article is about the year 560. For the number (and other uses), see 560 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 530s 540s 550s – 560s – 570s 580s 590s |
| Years: | 557 558 559 – 560 – 561 562 563 |
| 560 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 560 DLX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1313 |
| Armenian calendar | 9 ԹՎ Թ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5310 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1284–-1283 |
| Bengali calendar | -33 |
| Berber calendar | 1510 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1104 |
| Burmese calendar | -78 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6068–6069 |
| Chinese calendar | 己卯年十一月十八日 (3196/3256-11-18) — to —
庚辰年十一月廿九日(3197/3257-11-29) |
| Coptic calendar | 276–277 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 552–553 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4320–4321 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 616–617 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 482–483 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3661–3662 |
| Holocene calendar | 10560 |
| Iranian calendar | 62 BP – 61 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 64 BH – 63 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2893 |
| Minguo calendar | 1352 before ROC 民前1352年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1103 |
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Year 560 (DLX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 560 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.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- Ceawlin of Wessex becomes King of Wessex (traditional date).
- Æthelbert succeeds his father Eormenric as king of Kent (traditional date).
- Adda succeeds his brother Glappa as king of Bernicia (traditional date).
- Aella becomes king of Deira (traditional date).
- Custennin ap Cado abdicates as King of Dumnonia, and retires to a monastery where he is eventually murdered. He is succeeded by his son Gerren II rac Dehau.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- Saint Columba quarrels with Saint Finnian over authorship of a psalter, leading to a pitched battle the next year.
[edit] Births
- Isidore of Seville, archbishop and scholar[1]
[edit] Deaths
- Cynric of Wessex, king of Wessex (traditional date)
- Eormenric, king of Kent (traditional date)
- Northern Qi Fei Di, Chinese ruler
- Glappa, king of Bernicia (traditional date)
- Chen Chang
- Emperor Ming of Northern Zhou
- Yang Yin
[edit] References
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia St. Isidore of Seville
