565

This article is about the year 565. For the number, see 565 (number). For other uses, see 565 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	530s 540s 550s – 560s – 570s 580s 590s
Years:	562 563 564 – 565 – 566 567 568

565 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

565 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	565 DLXV
Ab urbe condita	1318
Armenian calendar	14 ԹՎ ԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	5315
Bengali calendar	−28
Berber calendar	1515
Buddhist calendar	1109
Burmese calendar	−73
Byzantine calendar	6073–6074
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3261 or 3201 — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3262 or 3202
Coptic calendar	281–282
Discordian calendar	1731
Ethiopian calendar	557–558
Hebrew calendar	4325–4326
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	621–622
- Shaka Samvat	487–488
- Kali Yuga	3666–3667
Holocene calendar	10565
Iranian calendar	57 BP – 56 BP
Islamic calendar	59 BH – 58 BH
Julian calendar	565 DLXV
Korean calendar	2898
Minguo calendar	1347 before ROC 民前1347年
Seleucid era	876/877 AG
Thai solar calendar	1107–1108

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Emperor Justin II (565–578)

Year 565 (DLXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 565 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

November 15 – Justin II succeeds his uncle Justinian I as emperor of the Byzantine Empire. He begins his reign by refusing subsidies to the Avars, who conduct several large-scale raids through the Balkan Peninsula.
Justin II recalls his cousin Justin (pretender to the throne) to Constantinople, after accusations against him he is placed under house arrest.
Justin II sends his son-in-law Baduarius (magister militum) with a Byzantine army to support the Gepids in their war against the Lombards.^[1]^[2]^[3]
The Madaba Map is made in the Byzantine church of Saint George. The floor mosaic contains the depiction of the Holy Land (approximate date).

Columba, Irish missionary, spots the Loch Ness Monster on the River Ness present day Scotland and saves the life of a Pict (approximate date).

Summer – Alboin succeeds his father Audoin as king of the Lombards. A war erupts with the Gepids, led by king Cunimund (approximate date).

Gao Wei succeeds his father Wu Cheng Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Qi Dynasty. Wu Cheng Di becomes a regent and Grand Emperor.
The Uyghurs are defeated by the Göktürks. They expand their territory in Central Asia (approximate date).

January 22 – Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople is deposed as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople by Justinian I after he refuses the Byzantine Emperor's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of Monophysites. From April 12 he is replaced by John Scholasticus.
Columba begins preaching in the Orkney Islands (approximate date).