Editing 565 (section)

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Byzantine Empire ====
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Justin II]] succeeds his uncle [[Justinian I]] as emperor of the [[Byzantine Empire]]. He begins his reign by refusing subsidies to the [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]], who conduct several large-scale raids through the [[Balkans|Balkan Peninsula]].
* Justin II recalls his cousin [[Justin (consul 540)|Justin]] ([[pretender]] to the [[throne]]) to [[Constantinople]]; after accusations against him, he is placed under [[house arrest]].
* Justin II sends his son-in-law [[Baduarius]] (''[[magister militum]]'') with a [[Byzantine army]], to support the [[Gepids]] in their war against the [[Lombards]].<ref>Rovagnati 2003, p. 30</ref><ref name="JJ22">Jarnut 1995, p. 22.</ref><ref>Martindale 1992, ''s.v. Baduarius (2)'', p. 64–65.</ref>
* The [[Madaba Map]] is made in the Byzantine church of [[Saint George]]. The floor [[mosaic]] contains the depiction of the [[Holy Land]] (approximate date).

==== Britain ====
* [[Columba]], an Irish [[missionary]], spots the [[Loch Ness Monster]] on the [[River Ness]] (in present day [[Scotland]]) and saves the life of a [[Picts|Pict]] (approximate date).

==== Europe ====
* Summer &ndash; A war erupts between [[Alboin]], the king of the Lombards, and King [[Cunimund]], the leader of the Gepids. (approximate date).

==== Asia ====
* [[Gao Wei]] succeeds his father [[Emperor Wucheng of Northern Qi|Wu Cheng Di]] as ruler of the Chinese [[Northern Qi|Northern Qi Dynasty]]. Wu Cheng Di becomes a regent and [[Taishang Huang|Grand Emperor]].
* The [[Uyghur people|Uyghurs]] are defeated by the [[Göktürks]], who expand their territory in [[Central Asia]] (approximate date).

==== Central America ====
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Kʼan Joy Chitam I]], ruler of the [[Maya rulers|Mayan city-state]] of [[Palenque]], in what is now the state of [[Chiapas]] in southern [[Mexico]], dies after a reign of exactly 36 years.
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Ahkal Moʼ Nahb II]] becomes the new ruler of [[Palenque]] and reigns until his death in [[570]].

=== By topic ===
==== Arts and sciences ====
* [[Agathias]] begins to write a history, beginning where [[Procopius]] finished his work.

==== Religion ====
* [[January 22]] &ndash; Patriarch [[Eutychius of Constantinople]] is deposed as [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]] by [[Justinian I]] after he refuses the Byzantine Emperor's order to adopt the tenets of the [[Aphthartodocetae]], a sect of [[Monophysitism|Monophysites]]. From [[April 12]] he is replaced by [[John Scholasticus]].
* Columba begins preaching in the [[Orkney Islands]] (approximate date).</onlyinclude>