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Year of the Wood Rooster乙酉( at the beginning of the year Wood Monkey甲申)
Era of Diocletian: 281/282 ( year November )
Syria: 876/877 (October)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- The year 565 is true at least in the German research as the most common end date of late antiquity, and thus as the end of antiquity.
Europe
- Vaefar is Duke in Alemannia, succeeding Magnachar.
Mesoamerica
- May 2: Ahkal Mo ' Nahb II becomes ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque. His relationship with his family died on February 6 predecessor K'an Joy Chitam I. remain a mystery.
Religion and Culture
- JANUARY 22: deposition of the Patriarch of Constantinople Opel, Eutychius. He is succeeded by John III. Scholasticus.
- Carentinus becomes bishop of Cologne.
- Columba of Iona allegedly proselytized in the Orkney. In a hagiography of the abbot Adamnan a monster in the river Ness is mentioned for the first time.
- The Latin poet Venantius Fortunatus goes on a pilgrimage to the grave of St. Martin of Italy to the Franks; there he considers himself first at the court of Sigebert I. and Bishop Sidonius of Mainz and later companion of Radegundis.
- Between 548 and 565: Foundation of the St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.
Born
- Gundoald of Asti, Duke († 616)
- To 565: Al- Abbas ibn Abd al - Muttalib, ancestor of the Muslim Abbasid († 653 )
Died
- February 6: K'an Joy Chitam I, ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque (* 490)
- November 14: Justinian I, Eastern Roman Emperor 527-565 (* 482 )
- Belisarius, Eastern Roman commander (c. 505)
- Dorotheus of Gaza, Christian monk and saint (* 505)
- To 565: Magnachar, Duke in Alamannia