575

This article is about the year 575. For the car, see Ferrari 575.

Year 575 (DLXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 575 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.

575 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	575 DLXXV
Ab urbe condita	1328
Armenian calendar	24 ԹՎ ԻԴ
Assyrian calendar	5325
Balinese saka calendar	496–497
Bengali calendar	−19 – −18
Berber calendar	1525
Buddhist calendar	1119
Burmese calendar	−63
Byzantine calendar	6083–6084
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3272 or 3065     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3273 or 3066
Coptic calendar	291–292
Discordian calendar	1741
Ethiopian calendar	567–568
Hebrew calendar	4335–4336
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	631–632
- Shaka Samvat	496–497
- Kali Yuga	3675–3676
Holocene calendar	10575
Iranian calendar	47 BP – 46 BP
Islamic calendar	48 BH – 47 BH
Javanese calendar	463–464
Julian calendar	575 DLXXV
Korean calendar	2908
Minguo calendar	1337 before ROC 民前1337年
Nanakshahi calendar	−893
Seleucid era	886/887 AG
Thai solar calendar	1117–1118
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 701 or 320 or −452     — to — ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 702 or 321 or −451

Śramana Zhiyi (538–597)

Events

By place

Europe

• The Franks under Sigibert I pursue his half brother Chilperic I, and conquer the cities Poitiers and Tournai. While he is proclaimed new king of Neustria by the nobles, Sigibert is assassinated at Vitry-en-Artois (Northern Gaul) by hirelings of Fredegund.
• Childebert II succeeds his father Sigibert I as king of Austrasia. His mother Brunhilda becomes regent and seeks protection from Guntram, king of Burgundy. He adopts Childebert as his own son and heir. A group of Frankish aristocrats rule Austrasia.
• The Visigoths under King Liuvigild invade the Suebian Kingdom (Northern Spain). Intermarriage between Goths and non-Goths is allowed in the Visigothic Kingdom (approximate date).

Britain

• The Convention of Druim Cett: Irish kings discuss the relationship between them and King Áedán mac Gabráin of Dál Riata. The Irish colony (now western Scotland) is confirmed, and rights to tax and levy are agreed to between the rulers.
• The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia is divided into the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and perhaps the eastern part of the Cambridgeshire Fens^[1] (approximate date).

Asia Minor

• Byzantine–Sassanid War: A Byzantine army under command of Maurice drives the Persians from Cappodocia (modern Turkey), and strengthens the Byzantine position in Caucasian Albania.
• Alexander of Tralles, Greek physician, writes "Libri duodecim de re Medica" (approximate date).

Asia

• Tardu succeeds his father Istämi, as governor (yabgu) of the Western Turkic Khaganate (Central Asia).

By topic

Religion

• Zhiyi, Chinese monk, travels to Mount Tiantai for intensive study and practice. He works with a group of disciples on the Indian meditation of śamatha and vipaśyanā.
• June 2 – Pope Benedict I succeeds Pope John III as the 62nd pope.

Births

• Al-Khansa, Arabic poet (d. 645)
• Heraclius, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (approximate date)
• Wen Yanbo, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 637)

Deaths

• August 2 – Ahudemmeh, Syriac Orthodox Grand Metropolitan of the East.^[2]
• Áed mac Echach, king of Connacht (Ireland)
• Cerbonius, bishop of Populonia (Central Italy)
• Istämi, ruler (yabgu) of the Western Turkic Khaganate
• Sigebert I, king of Austrasia (approximate date)