564

Year 564 (DLXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 564 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.

564 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	564 DLXIV
Ab urbe condita	1317
Armenian calendar	13 ԹՎ ԺԳ
Assyrian calendar	5314
Balinese saka calendar	485–486
Bengali calendar	−30 – −29
Berber calendar	1514
Buddhist calendar	1108
Burmese calendar	−74
Byzantine calendar	6072–6073
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 3261 or 3054     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3262 or 3055
Coptic calendar	280–281
Discordian calendar	1730
Ethiopian calendar	556–557
Hebrew calendar	4324–4325
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	620–621
- Shaka Samvat	485–486
- Kali Yuga	3664–3665
Holocene calendar	10564
Iranian calendar	58 BP – 57 BP
Islamic calendar	60 BH – 59 BH
Javanese calendar	452–453
Julian calendar	564 DLXIV
Korean calendar	2897
Minguo calendar	1348 before ROC 民前1348年
Nanakshahi calendar	−904
Seleucid era	875/876 AG
Thai solar calendar	1106–1107
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Water-Sheep) 690 or 309 or −463     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Monkey) 691 or 310 or −462

Seaside view of the Pyramid El Castillo (Tulum)

Events

By place

Britain

• Cadoc, abbot of Llancarfan (Wales), settles in Weedon and is made bishop (approximate date).
• August 22 – Columba reports seeing the Loch Ness Monster at the River Ness (according to the "Life of St. Columba").

Mesoamerica

• Tulum, Maya walled city, on the Yucatán Peninsula (modern Mexico) is first mentioned on a stele inscription.^[1]

By topic

Religion

• Samson of Dol, one of seven founder saints of Brittany, attends a council in Paris and witnesses several royal decrees (approximate date).

Births

• Hermenegild, Visigoth prince (approximate date)
• Li Baiyao, Chinese official and historian (d. 647)

Deaths

• Gao Bainian, crown prince of Northern Qi (b. 556)
• Laisrén mac Nad Froích, Irish monk and saint
• Petroc, Celtic prince and saint (approximate date)
• Tudwal, Breton monk and saint (approximate date)