Eastern Hemisphere in 565AD.

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

• November 14 — Justin II succeeds Justinian I as Emperor.

Europe

• August 22 — St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
• Alboin succeeds his father Audoin as king of the Lombards.

Asia

• Hou Zhu succeeds Wu Cheng Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Qi Dynasty
• The Uyghurs are conquered by the Göktürks.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

• Agathias begins to write a history beginning where Procopius finished his work.

Religion

• January 22 — Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
• Columba begins preaching in the Orkney Islands.

Births

• Empress Chen Yueyi
• Empress Yuan Leshang, an empress of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in China, later became a Buddhist nun who lived as a recluse, dying at an unknown date (yet was still alive during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, which ended in 649)

Deaths

• November 13 (or 14) — Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor
• Belisarius, Byzantine general
• Procopius of Caesarea, historian
• Audoin, king of the Lombards