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Calendar overview 572
Map with all linked sites: | 572 | |
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 This also means that the kingdom of Septimania falls to him . |
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| 572 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 20/21 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 564/565 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1115/16 (southern Buddhism); 1114/15 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 54th (55th) cycle
Year of the water dragon壬辰 ( at the beginning of the year metal rabbit 辛卯) |
| Jewish calendar | 4332/33 (23/24 September) |
| Coptic calendar | 288/289 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCCCXXV (1325)
Diocletian's era : 288/289 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 882/883 (April)
Syria: 883/884 (October) |
| Spanish era | 610 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 628/629 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Longobard Empire
- The Lombards succeed taking after three-year siege of Pavia , which they make their residence.
- June 28, 572 or 573 : Apparently at the instigation of his wife Rosamunde , the Lombard king Alboin is murdered in Verona ; Rosamunde escapes to Ravenna to the Eastern Romans . Cleph becomes the new king of the Lombards .
Visigoth Empire
- After the death of King Liuva I , his brother Leovigild , who had been co-king since 568 , becomes the sole ruler of the Visigoths .
- The Visigoths recaptured Cordoba from the Eastern Romans.
Eastern Roman Empire / Persian Empire
- Christian insurgents in the Persian part of Armenia ( Persarmenia ) ask the Eastern Roman Emperor Justin II for help. He agrees and also denies the Sassanid Persians the 562 agreed tributes.
- The renewed outbreak of war between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Sassanids (under Chosrau I ) put an end to the peace negotiated in 562 . Imperial troops try in vain to conquer Nisibis .
East asia
Mesoamerica
- Almost two years after the death of his predecessor Ahkal Mo 'Nahb II , Kan Bahlam I ascends the throne of the Mayan city of Palenque on April 6th . He is the first ruler of the city-state to add the term k'inich ("radiant") associated with the sun god to his name .
Disasters
- After the break of the Ma'rib dam in what is now Yemen , the city of Ma'rib has to be abandoned.
Died
The Assassination of Alboin, painting by Charles Landseer , 1859
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