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Year of the Metal Dragon庚辰(at the beginning of earth - hare己卯)
Era of Diocletian: 276/277 ( year November )
Syria: 871/872 (October)
Events
Europe
- 560: Alboin, after the death of his father Audoin King of the Lombards on the middle Danube.
- 560: Ceawlin is after death Cynrics King of Wessex.
- 560: Aethelberht becomes King of Kent.
- 560: Change The previously Arian Suevi with their king to the Catholic faith; so hold among the Christian nations of Europe only the Visigoths under Athanagild (yet ) on the Arian faith firmly.
- 560: On their train to the west by the Avars defeat the hunno - Bulgarians north of the Black Sea.
- 560: Cunimund follows his father to the throne of Turisind Gepid.
Asia
- Sekin Shad, co-ruler of Göktürks, defeated the Khitan in northern China.
- Together with the Sassanid Empire under Khosrau I. destroy the Göktürks the realm of the Hephthalites in the decisive battle of Bukhara.
Born
- Sophronius of Jerusalem, Patriarch of Jerusalem ( † 638 )
- Sui Yangdi, Chinese emperor († 618)
- 560: Eustasius, abbot and missionary of the Bavarians († 629)
- 560: Isidore of Seville, Doctor of the Church († 636)
Died
- Abraha, king of Yemen
- Aspasius of Auch, abbot of Auch
- Chlodoald, Merovingian prince, saint (c. 520)
- Glappa, King of Bernicia
- 560: Audoin, King of the Lombards
- 560: Cynric, King of Wessex
- 560: Eormenric, King of Kent
- 560: Turisind, king of the Gepids