565

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Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

* November 14 — Justin II succeeds Justinian I as Emperor.

Europe

* August 22 — St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
* Alboin succeeds his father Audoin as king of the Lombards.

Asia

* Hou Zhu succeeds Wu Cheng Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Qi Dynasty
* The Uyghurs are conquered by the Göktürks.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

* Agathias begins to write a history beginning where Procopius finished his work.

Religion

* January 22 — Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
* Columba begins preaching in the Orkney Islands.

Births

* Empress Chen Yueyi
* Empress Yuan Leshang, an empress of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in China, later became a Buddhist nun who lived as a recluse, dying at an unknown date (yet was still alive during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, which ended in 649)

Deaths

* November 13 (or 14) — Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor
* Belisarius, Byzantine general
* Procopius of Caesarea, historian
* Audoin, king of the Lombards