560

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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	540s 550s 560s 570s 580s
Years:	557 558 559 560 561 562 563

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	−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	阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 686 or 305 or −467     — to — 阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 687 or 306 or −466

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
• 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.