Years: 561 562 563 564 - 565 - 566 567 568 569

Decades: 530s 540s 550s - 560s - 570s 580s 590s

Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century

Events

• January 22 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
• November 14 - Justin II succeeds Justinian I as Byzantine Emperor
• Agathias begins to write a history beginning where Procopius finished his work.
• Northern Qi Hou Zhu succeeds Northern Qi Wu Cheng Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Qi Dynasty
• Alboin succeeds his father Audoin as king of the Lombards
• Saint Columba allegedly saves the life of a Pict who was being attacked by a monster in the River Ness. The alleged event has been suggested as the earliest known sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.
• Columba begins preaching in the Orkney Islands.
• The Uighurs are taken over by the Gokturks.

Births

Deaths

• November 13/ 14 - Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor
• Belisarius, Byzantine general
• Procopius of Caesarea, historian
• Audoin , king of the Lombards