567

This article is about the year 567. For the number, see 567 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	530s  540s  550s  – 560s –  570s  580s  590s
Years:	564 565 566 – 567 – 568 569 570

567 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

567 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	567 DLXVII
Ab urbe condita	1320
Armenian calendar	16 ԹՎ ԺԶ
Assyrian calendar	5317
Bengali calendar	−26
Berber calendar	1517
Buddhist calendar	1111
Burmese calendar	−71
Byzantine calendar	6075–6076
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3263 or 3203     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3264 or 3204
Coptic calendar	283–284
Discordian calendar	1733
Ethiopian calendar	559–560
Hebrew calendar	4327–4328
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	623–624
- Shaka Samvat	489–490
- Kali Yuga	3668–3669
Holocene calendar	10567
Iranian calendar	55 BP – 54 BP
Islamic calendar	57 BH – 56 BH
Julian calendar	567 DLXVII
Korean calendar	2900
Minguo calendar	1345 before ROC 民前1345年
Seleucid era	878/879 AG
Thai solar calendar	1109–1110

King Charibert I (c. 517–567)

Year 567 (DLXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 567 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

By place

Europe

• The Lombards under king Alboin and their allies invade the Kingdom of the Gepids (modern Romania). King Cunimund is defeated along the Danube.
• The Gepids are conquered by the Lombards and the Avars. Cunimund is killed and his daughter Rosamund is taken captive (according to the Origo).
• Sigebert I, king of Austrasia, marries Brunhilda, and his half brother Chilperic I marries Galswintha, both daughters of the Visigothic king Athanagild.
• King Charibert I dies without an heir, his realm (region Neustria and Aquitaine) is divided between his brothers Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I.
• Liuva I succeeds his predecessor Athanagild after an interregnum of five months and becomes king of the Visigoths.

By topic

Religion

• The Second Council of Tours is held. In a decree is decided that any cleric found in bed with his wife will be excommunicated.
• John III, patriarch of Constantinople, organizes a compromise between the Chalcedonians and Monophysites.

Births

• Ingund, wife of Hermenegild (or 568)

Deaths

• Athanagild, king of the Visigoths
• Charibert I, king of the Franks
• Cissa, king of the South Saxons
• Cunimund, king of the Gepids
• June 5 – Theodosius I, patriarch of Alexandria