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Year 572 (DLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 572 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
[edit | edit source]By place
[edit | edit source]Byzantine Empire
[edit | edit source]- Byzantine–Sassanid War of 572–591: Emperor Justin II refuses to pay the annual tribute to Khosrau I, putting an end to the 50-year peace treaty established ten years earlier. The Armenians are considered allies to the Byzantine Empire, and Justin sends a Byzantine army into Persian territory, besieging the fortress city of Nisibis (modern Turkey).[1]
Europe
[edit | edit source]- Siege of Pavia (569–572): King Alboin captures Ticinum (Pavia); after a siege the Byzantine garrison surrenders to the Lombards. The city is of strategic importance, lying at the rivers Po and Ticino, and becomes the capital of the Kingdom of the Lombards.
- June 28 – Alboin, king of the Lombards, is murdered at Verona in his palace, at the instigation of his wife Rosamund (daughter of the Gepid king Cunimund), and her henchman, Helmechis (the king's squire); both flee to seek Byzantine protection in Ravenna. Alboin is succeeded as king by Cleph, who is not related by blood.
Britain
[edit | edit source]- Theodric succeeds his brother Æthelric as king of Bernicia (southeastern Scotland). He rules until 579.
Asia
[edit | edit source]- Taspar Qaghan succeeds his brother Muqan Qaghan as ruler (khagan) of the Turkic Khaganate (Central Asia).
- Bidatsu succeeds his father Kinmei and ascends to the throne of Japan as the 30th emperor.
Mesoamerica
[edit | edit source]- Calakmul defeats Tikal, bringing an end to the First Tikal-Calakmul War.
Births
[edit | edit source]- Chen Shuda, Chinese statesman
- Hovnan Mayravanetsi, Armenian philosopher
Deaths
[edit | edit source]- June 28 – Alboin, king of the Lombards[2]
- Æthelric of Bernicia, Scottish king
- Báetán mac Muirchertaig, High King of Ireland
- Corippus, Byzantine epic poet (approximate date)
- Eochaid mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland
- Hulü Guang, general of Northern Qi (b. 515)
- Liuva I, king of the Visigoths (or 571)
- Muqan Qaghan, ruler of the Göktürks
- Waldrada, Lombard princess (b. 531)
- Wei Shou, Chinese author (b. 506)
- Yuwen Hu, regent of Northern Zhou (b. 515)
- Sky Witness, ruler of Calakmul
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Frye, Richard N. (1983). The History of Ancient Iran.
- ↑ Agnellus of Ravenna, Liber Pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, chapter 96. Translated by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna (Washington: Catholic University of America, 2004), pp. 207f