Centuries:	5th century · 6th century · 7th century
Decades:	530s 540s 550s 560s 570s 580s 590s
Years:	557 558 559 560 561 562 563

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

560 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	560 DLX
Ab urbe condita	1313
Armenian calendar	9 ԹՎ Թ
Bahá'í calendar	-1284 – -1283
Berber calendar	1510
Buddhist calendar	1104
Burmese calendar	-78
Byzantine calendar	6068 – 6069
Chinese calendar	己卯年十一月十八日 (3196/3256-11-18) — to — 庚辰年十一月廿九日 (3197/3257-11-29)
Coptic calendar	276 – 277
Ethiopian calendar	552 – 553
Hebrew calendar	4320 – 4321
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	615 – 616
- Shaka Samvat	482 – 483
- Kali Yuga	3661 – 3662
Holocene calendar	10560
Iranian calendar	62 BP – 61 BP
Islamic calendar	64 BH – 63 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2893
Thai solar calendar	1103
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Events

By Place

Europe

• Ceawlin of Wessex becomes King of Wessex (traditional date).
• Æthelbert succeeds his father Eormenric as king of Kent (traditional date).
• Adda succeeds his brother Glappa as king of Bernicia (traditional date).
• Aella becomes king of Deira (traditional date).
• Custennin ap Cado abdicates as King of Dumnonia, and retires to a monastery where he is eventually murdered. He is succeeded by his son Gerren II rac Dehau.

By Topic

Religion

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

Births

• Isidore of Seville, archbishop and scholar ^[1]

Deaths

• Cynric of Wessex, king of Wessex (traditional date)
• Eormenric, king of Kent (traditional date)
• Northern Qi Fei Di, Chinese ruler
• Glappa, king of Bernicia (traditional date)
• Chen Chang
• Emperor Ming of Northern Zhou
• Yang Yin

References