560s

The 560s decade ran from January 1, 560, to December 31, 569.

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561


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  • The Battle of Cúl Drebene (modern Ireland) is fought between the Northern and Southern Uí Néill (approximate date).
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562

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563

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  • Tauredunum event:[4] A mountain landslide into the Rhone river destroys a fort and two villages, and creates a tsunami in Lake Geneva. The wave which reaches Lausanne is thirteen metres high, and eight metres high by the time it hits Geneva. Describing the event, Marius Aventicensis writes that the tsunami "devastated very old villages with their men and cattle, it even destroyed many sacred places", and swept away "the bridge in Geneva, windmills and men".[5]

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564

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565

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  • Summer – A war erupts between Alboin, the king of the Lombards, and King Cunimund, the leader of the Gepids. (approximate date).
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566

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  • A poet from Italy named Venantius Fortunatus arrives at the Merovingian court at Metz. With a strong grasp of traditional Roman poetry, Fortunatus impresses and entertains the Frankish royalty and aristocracy. The success of a Latin poet in Francia suggests that Roman culture persisted well after the Roman Empire disintegrated in Gaul in the late 5th century.[11]
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569

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  • September – The Lombards conquer Forum Iulii (Cividale del Friuli) in northeastern Italy. Later in the year, the Lombards conquer Milan.
  • Gisulf I, nephew of Alboin, is appointed as the first duke of Friuli (approximate date).
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  1. ^ Frye Ancient Iran
  2. ^ Arlen Chase and Diane Chase 2008. "What the Hieroglyphs Don't Tell You": Archaeology and History at Caracol, Belize. Mayab 20: 103-108
  3. ^ P. Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: "A New History of Rome and the Barbarians", p. 283
  4. ^ "Lake Geneva 'may face tsunami risk'". Daily Telegraph. 28 October 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  5. ^ "Des chercheurs reconstituent le tsunami du lac Léman de l’an 563" Archived September 5, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Le Monde, 28 October 2012
  6. ^ Photos of Tulum Archeological Site
  7. ^ Rovagnati 2003, p. 30
  8. ^ Jarnut 1995, p. 22.
  9. ^ Martindale 1992, s.v. Baduarius (2), p. 64–65.
  10. ^ Martindale, Jones & Morris (1992) p. 753–754
  11. ^ Wickham, Chris (2005). Framing the Early Middle Ages. p. 175.
  12. ^ Connor, Steve (2014-07-07). "Our explosive past is written in the Antarctic ice". i. London. p. 17.
  13. ^ Charibert I, Edward James, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, ed. Oliver Nicholson, (Oxford University Press, 2018), 317.
  14. ^ Isidore, chapter 46; translated by Donini and Ford, p. 22
  15. ^ Traditional date as given in William J. Langer, ed. An Encyclopedia of World History
  16. ^ John of Biclaro, Chronicle 10. Translated by Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain, second edition (Liverpool: University Press, 1990), p. 60
  17. ^ McClanan, p. 167
  18. ^ John of Biclar, Chronicle 3, Chronica Minora 2, p. 212