Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 561 A.D. through 570 A.D.
- 561 to 570
- Chlothar I, d. 561, his kingdom being divided among
his sons Charibert (- 567), Guntram (- 592), Sigebert
(- 575), and Chilperic (- 584)
- Emperor Justinian I d. 565 (b. 483); succeeded by his
nephew Justin II (d. 578)
- The Lombards drive the Byzantines from northern Italy
to the south, but leave them in Ravenna (565)
- Audoin d. 565 (see 546), after which his son and
successor Alboin destroys, with the help of the
Avars, the Gothic kingdom of the Gepidae on the
lower Vistula
- Leovigild, king of the Visigoths (567 - 586), drives
the Byzantines from western Spain (567)
- Partition of the Frankish kingdom into Austrasia
(Lorraine, Belgium, right bank of the Rhine), Neustria
(France), and Burgundy (567)
- Alboin founds a Lombard kingdom in northern and
central Italy (568 - 774)
- Persians overthrow Abyssinian rule in the Yemen (570)
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