560

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Year 560 (DLX) was a leap year starting on Thursday 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.

Europe

Alboin succeeds his father Audoin after his death, as king of the Lombards.

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.

Columba quarrels with Finnian of Moville over authorship of a psalter, leading to a pitched battle the next year.

Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, Arabic leader (d. 652)

Æthelberht, king of Kent (approximate date)

Constantina, Byzantine empress (approximate date)

Richarius, Frankish hermit and monk (approximate date)

Tassilo I, duke of Bavaria (d. 610)

Abraha, Ethiopian Christian viceroy

Audoin, king of the Lombards (approximate date)

Chen Chang, prince of the Chen Dynasty (b. 537)

Clodoald, Merovingian prince (approximate date)

Cynric, king of Wessex (approximate date)

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)

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