Editing 563

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[[File:Columba at Bridei's fort.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|[[Columba]] at the gate of [[Bridei I of the Picts|Bridei's fort]] ([[Scotland]])]]
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Year '''563''' ('''[[Roman numerals|DLXIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. The denomination 563 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 ==
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=== By place ===

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* Emperor [[Justinian I]] pardons [[Belisarius]]; he orders his release from [[prison]], and  restores his properties and [[honour]]s. He permits the general to live in obscurity, and gives him a veterans' [[pension]].
* The new [[Hagia Sophia]] (cost: 20,000 pounds of [[gold]]<ref>P. Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: ''"A New History of Rome and the Barbarians"'', p. 283</ref>), with its numerous [[chapel]]s and [[shrine]]s, octagonal [[dome]] and [[mosaic]]s, becomes the centre and most visible monument of [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodoxy]].

==== Europe ====
* [[Tauredunum event]]:<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/switzerland/9639046/Lake-Geneva-may-face-tsunami-risk.html|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|title=Lake Geneva 'may face tsunami risk'|date=28 October 2012|access-date=28 October 2012}}</ref> A mountain landslide into the [[Rhone]] river destroys a fort and two villages, and creates a [[tsunami]] in [[Lake Geneva]]. The wave which reaches [[Lausanne]] is thirteen metres high, and eight metres high by the time it hits [[Geneva]]. Describing the event, [[Marius Aventicensis]] writes that the tsunami "devastated very old villages with their men and cattle, it even destroyed many sacred places", and swept away "the bridge in Geneva, windmills and men".<ref>[http://passeurdesciences.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/10/28/des-chercheurs-reconstituent-le-tsunami-du-lac-leman-de-563/ "Des chercheurs reconstituent le tsunami du lac Léman de l’an 563"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905012101/http://passeurdesciences.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/10/28/des-chercheurs-reconstituent-le-tsunami-du-lac-leman-de-563/ |date=September 5, 2017 }}, ''[[Le Monde]]'', 28 October 2012</ref>

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* [[Columba]], Irish [[missionary]] [[monk]], travels to [[Scotland]] with twelve companions. He lands on the [[Mull of Kintyre|Kintyre]] Peninsula, near [[Southend, Argyll|Southend]], and begins his [[Evangelism|evangelising]] mission to the [[Picts]]. On the island of [[Iona]], he founds a monastery ([[Iona Abbey]]) on the west coast in the [[Inner Hebrides]].
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== Births ==
* [[Andreas of Caesarea]], [[bishop]] and writer (d. [[637]])
* [[Chindasuinth]], king of the [[Visigoths]] (d. [[653]])

== Deaths ==
* January &ndash;[[Cutzinas]], Berber chieftain
* [[Hou Andu]], general of the [[Chen dynasty]] (b. [[520]])
* [[Empress Wang (Xiao Cha)|Wang]], empress of the [[Liang dynasty]]

== References ==
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