560s

Events

560

By place

Europe

• Alboin succeeds his father Audoin after his death, as king of the Lombards.

Britain

• Adda succeeds his brother Glappa as king of Bernicia (approximate date).
• Ælla becomes king of Deira (this according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).
• Ceawlin succeeds his father Cynric as king of Wessex (approximate date).
• Custennin ap Cado abdicates as king of Dumnonia (South West England).
• Elidyr of Strathclyde invades Gwynedd (Wales) and tries to expel his brother-in-law, king Rhun Hir ap Maelgwn.

By topic

Religion

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

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