560
Year 560 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.
Events
By place
Europe
- Alboin succeeds his father Audoin after his death, as king of the Lombards.
Britain
- Adda succeeds his brother Glappa as king of Bernicia.
- Ælla becomes king of Deira.
- Ceawlin succeeds his father Cynric as king of Wessex.
- Custennin ap Cado abdicates as king of Dumnonia.
- Elidyr of Strathclyde invades Gwynedd and tries to expel his brother-in-law, king Rhun Hir ap Maelgwn.
By topic
Religion
- Columba quarrels with Finnian of Moville over authorship of a psalter, leading to a pitched battle the next year.
Births
- Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, Arabic leader
- Constantina, Byzantine empress
- Eustace of Luxeuil, abbot
- Isidore of Seville, archbishop and scholar
- Richarius, Frankish hermit and monk
- Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem
- Tassilo I, duke of Bavaria
Deaths
- Aspasius of Auch, bishop of Éauze
- Audoin, king of the Lombards
- Chen Chang, prince of the Chen dynasty
- Clodoald, Merovingian prince
- Cynric, king of Wessex
- Domitian of Huy, Frankish bishop and saint
- Dorotheus of Gaza, monk and abbot
- Glappa, king of Bernicia
- Ming Di, emperor of Northern Zhou
- Thurisind, king of the Gepids
- Yang Yin, official of Northern Qi