568
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| Centuries: | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |
| Decades: | 530s 540s 550s 560s 570s 580s 590s |
| Years: | 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 |
| 568 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 568 DLXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1321 |
| Armenian calendar | 17 ԹՎ ԺԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1276 – -1275 |
| Berber calendar | 1518 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1112 |
| Burmese calendar | -70 |
| Chinese calendar | 3204/3264-11-16 (丁亥年十一月十六日) — to —
3205/3265-11-27(戊子年十一月廿七日) |
| Coptic calendar | 284 – 285 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 560 – 561 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4328 – 4329 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 623 – 624 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 490 – 491 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3669 – 3670 |
| Holocene calendar | 10568 |
| Iranian calendar | 54 BP – 53 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 56 BH – 55 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2901 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1111 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By Place
[edit] Europe
- April 1 — King Alboin leads the Lombards into Italy; refugees fleeing from them go on to found Venice.
- Leovigild succeeds his brother Liuva I as king of the Visigoths.
- Æthelric succeeds his brother Adda as king of Bernicia (traditional date).
- Ceawlin of Wessex defeats Ethelbert of Kent at the Battle of Wibbandun.
- Sigebert I of Austrasia repels an attack from the Avars.
- Fredegund becomes the mistress of Chilperic I after the murder of Galswintha.
[edit] Asia
- The Turks and Sassanids succeed in destroying the Hepthalite empire.
- A Turkish khan sends emissaries to Byzantium.
[edit] Births
- Feng Deyi, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 627)
- Liu Wenjing, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 619)
[edit] Deaths
- Adda, king of Bernicia (traditional date)
- Galswintha, wife of Chilperic I of Neustria
