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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Tiger庚寅(at the beginning of Earth Buffalo己丑)

Era of Diocletian: 286/287 ( year November )

Syria: 881/882 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• Leutfred I will duke of the Alemanni.
• The Jews of Clermont- Ferrand be forced to become Christians.

• 570: The Lombard dux Faroald I founds the Duchy of Spoleto, with its capital Spoleto.

Mesoamerica

• July 21: After the death of Ahkal Mo ' Nahb II the throne of the Mayan city of Palenque remains vacant for almost two years.

Disasters

• The Justinian plague breaks in the Eastern Roman Empire again.

Religion

• 570: Bishop Arbogast from Strasbourg founded the monastery Surbourg in Haguenau (Alsace ).

Born

• Childebert II, Merovingian king of the Frankish Empire († 595 )
• Abban of Magheranoidhe, Catholic saint († 620)
• 570: Himerius, hermit and saint ( † about 620)

• 570: Abu Jahl, Muhammad's adversaries († 624)
• 570: Mohammed, founder of Islam († 632)
• 570: Pybba, King of Mercia ( † about 606)
• 570: Rigunth, Merovingian king's daughter ( † after 585 )
• 570: Theodelinda, Lombard queen ( † 627 )

Died

• July 21 Ahkal Mo ' Nahb II, ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque (* 523 )

• 570 Gildas, representatives of Celtic Christianity in Britain (c. 510)
• 570: John Malalas: Greek historian (c. 490)
• 570: ʿ Abd Allāh ibn ʿ Abd al - Muttalib, father of the founder of the religion Muhammad (c. 545 )