565

This article is about the year 565. For other uses, see 565 (disambiguation).

Year 565 (DLXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 565 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.

565 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	565 DLXV
Ab urbe condita	1318
Armenian calendar	14 ԹՎ ԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	5315
Balinese saka calendar	486–487
Bengali calendar	−29 – −28
Berber calendar	1515
Buddhist calendar	1109
Burmese calendar	−73
Byzantine calendar	6073–6074
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3262 or 3055     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3263 or 3056
Coptic calendar	281–282
Discordian calendar	1731
Ethiopian calendar	557–558
Hebrew calendar	4325–4326
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	621–622
- Shaka Samvat	486–487
- Kali Yuga	3665–3666
Holocene calendar	10565
Iranian calendar	57 BP – 56 BP
Islamic calendar	59 BH – 58 BH
Javanese calendar	453–454
Julian calendar	565 DLXV
Korean calendar	2898
Minguo calendar	1347 before ROC 民前1347年
Nanakshahi calendar	−903
Seleucid era	876/877 AG
Thai solar calendar	1107–1108
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Monkey) 691 or 310 or −462     — to — ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Bird) 692 or 311 or −461

Emperor Justin II (565–578)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• November 15 – Justin II succeeds his uncle Justinian I as emperor of the Byzantine Empire. He begins his reign by refusing subsidies to the Avars, who conduct several large-scale raids through the Balkan Peninsula.
• Justin II recalls his cousin Justin (pretender to the throne) to Constantinople; after accusations against him, he is placed under house arrest.
• Justin II sends his son-in-law Baduarius (magister militum) with a Byzantine army, to support the Gepids in their war against the Lombards.^[1][2][3]
• The Madaba Map is made in the Byzantine church of Saint George. The floor mosaic contains the depiction of the Holy Land (approximate date).

Britain

• Columba, an Irish missionary, spots the Loch Ness Monster on the River Ness (in present day Scotland) and saves the life of a Pict (approximate date).

Europe

• Summer – A war erupts between Alboin, the king of the Lombards, and King Cunimund, the leader of the Gepids. (approximate date).

Asia

• Gao Wei succeeds his father Wu Cheng Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Qi Dynasty. Wu Cheng Di becomes a regent and Grand Emperor.
• The Uyghurs are defeated by the Göktürks, who expand their territory in Central Asia (approximate date).

Central America

• February 6 – Kʼan Joy Chitam I, ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque, in what is now the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, dies after a reign of exactly 36 years.
• May 2 – Ahkal Moʼ Nahb II becomes the new ruler of Palenque and reigns until his death in 570.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• Agathias begins to write a history, beginning where Procopius finished his work.

Religion

• January 22 – Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople is deposed as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople by Justinian I after he refuses the Byzantine Emperor's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of Monophysites. From April 12 he is replaced by John Scholasticus.
• Columba begins preaching in the Orkney Islands (approximate date).

Births

• Chen Yueyi, empress of Northern Zhou (approximate date)
• Cuthwine, prince of Wessex (approximate date)
• Gundoald, Bavarian nobleman (approximate date)
• Marutha of Tikrit, Persian theologian (d. 649)
• Mirin, Irish monk and missionary (approximate date)
• Sisebut, king of the Visigoths (approximate date)
• Witteric, king of the Visigoths (approximate date)
• Yuan Leshang, empress of Northern Zhou

Deaths

• November 14 – Justinian I, emperor of the Byzantine Empire
• Audoin, king of the Lombards (approximate date)
• Belisarius, Byzantine general ("Last of the Romans")
• Diarmait mac Cerbaill, High King (approximate date)
• Dorotheus of Gaza, monk and abbot (approximate date)
• Procopius, Byzantine historian (approximate date)
• Samson of Dol, bishop and saint (approximate date)

Establishments

• Saint Catherine's Monastery in Mount Sinai, Saint Catherine, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt by Justinian I, which contains the oldest active library, being Ebla tablets (c. 2500–2250 BC) in the city of Ebla, Syria, discovered by Italian archaeologist Paolo Matthiae and his team in 1974–75, the first, if not the oldest, inactive library.