560 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 560
DLX
Ab urbe condita 1313
Armenian calendar 9
ԹՎ Թ
Assyrian calendar 5310
Balinese saka calendar 481–482
Bengali calendar −34 – −33
Berber calendar 1510
Buddhist calendar 1104
Burmese calendar −78
Byzantine calendar 6068–6069
Chinese calendar 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
3257 or 3050
    — to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
3258 or 3051
Coptic calendar 276–277
Discordian calendar 1726
Ethiopian calendar 552–553
Hebrew calendar 4320–4321
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 616–617
 - Shaka Samvat 481–482
 - Kali Yuga 3660–3661
Holocene calendar 10560
Iranian calendar 62 BP – 61 BP
Islamic calendar 64 BH – 63 BH
Javanese calendar 448–449
Julian calendar 560
DLX
Korean calendar 2893
Minguo calendar 1352 before ROC
民前1352年
Nanakshahi calendar −908
Seleucid era 871/872 AG
Thai solar calendar 1102–1103
Tibetan calendar ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Earth-Hare)
686 or 305 or −467
    — to —
ལྕགས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Iron-Dragon)
687 or 306 or −466

Year 560 (DLX) was a leap year starting on Thursday[1] 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.

Events

By place

Europe

  • Alboin succeeds his father Audoin after his death, as king of the Lombards.

Britain

  • Adda succeeds his brother Glappa as king of Bernicia (approximate date).
  • Ælla becomes king of Deira (this according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).
  • Ceawlin succeeds his father Cynric as king of Wessex (approximate date).
  • Custennin ap Cado abdicates as king of Dumnonia (South West England).
  • Elidyr of Strathclyde invades Gwynedd (Wales) and tries to expel his brother-in-law, king Rhun Hir ap Maelgwn.

By topic

Religion

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


Births

  • Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, Arabic leader (d. 652)
  • Constantina, Byzantine empress (approximate date)
  • Eustace of Luxeuil, abbot (approximate date)
  • Isidore of Seville, archbishop and scholar[2]
  • Richarius, Frankish hermit and monk (approximate date)
  • Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 638)
  • Tassilo I, duke of Bavaria (d. 610)

Deaths

  • Aspasius of Auch, bishop of Éauze
  • Audoin, king of the Lombards (approximate date)
  • Chen Chang, prince of the Chen dynasty (b. 537)
  • Clodoald, Merovingian prince (approximate date) (b. 522)
  • Cynric, king of Wessex[3]
  • Domitian of Huy, Frankish bishop and saint
  • Dorotheus of Gaza, monk and abbot (approximate date)
  • Glappa, king of Bernicia (approximate date)
  • Ming Di, emperor of Northern Zhou (b. 534)
  • Thurisind, king of the Gepids (approximate date)
  • Yang Yin, official of Northern Qi (b. 511)[4]

References

  1. ^ "Year 560 Calendar – Julian calendar". timeanddate.com.
  2. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia St. Isidore of Seville
  3. ^ "Cynric | king of Wessex". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  4. ^ Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 3 & 4): A Reference Guide, Part Three & Four. BRILL. September 18, 2014. p. 1855. ISBN 978-90-04-27185-2.