556

Year 556 (DLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 556 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
556 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar556
DLVI
Ab urbe condita1309
Armenian calendar5
ԹՎ Ե
Assyrian calendar5306
Balinese saka calendar477–478
Bengali calendar−37
Berber calendar1506
Buddhist calendar1100
Burmese calendar−82
Byzantine calendar6064–6065
Chinese calendar乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
3252 or 3192
     to 
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
3253 or 3193
Coptic calendar272–273
Discordian calendar1722
Ethiopian calendar548–549
Hebrew calendar4316–4317
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat612–613
 - Shaka Samvat477–478
 - Kali Yuga3656–3657
Holocene calendar10556
Iranian calendar66 BP – 65 BP
Islamic calendar68 BH – 67 BH
Javanese calendar444–445
Julian calendar556
DLVI
Korean calendar2889
Minguo calendar1356 before ROC
民前1356年
Nanakshahi calendar−912
Seleucid era867/868 AG
Thai solar calendar1098–1099
Tibetan calendar阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
682 or 301 or −471
     to 
阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
683 or 302 or −470
Maximianus of Ravenna (499–556)

Events

Europe

  • King Chlothar I suppresses a revolt of the Saxons and Thuringii in Saxony (Germany). For some time he exacts a tribute of 500 cows every year.

Britain

Persia

  • Lazic War: A Byzantine expeditionary force under Justin retakes Archaeopolis (modern Georgia), and routs the Persian army.[2]
  • Siege of Phasis: The Persians are defeated at the besieged town of Phasis in Lazica, held by the Byzantines.[3]
  • King Khosrau I opens negotiations with Justinian I, leading to the establishment of a 50 year peace agreement in 562.

Religion

Births

  • Gao Bainian, crown prince of Northern Qi (d. 564)
  • Amr Ibn Hashim, Arab pagan chieftain, and biggest enemy to the spread of early Islam

Deaths

  • February 22 Maximianus, Bishop of Ravenna (b. 499)
  • Echu Tirmcharna, king of Connacht (Ireland)
  • Erzhu Ying'e, empress of Northern Wei
  • Romanos the Melodist, Syrian poet (approximate date)
  • Xiao Yuanming, emperor of the Liang Dynasty
  • Yuwen Tai, general of Western Wei (b. 507)

References

  1. Myres, p. 162
  2. Bury 1958, p. 119; Martindale, Jones & Morris 1992, pp. 752, 845–846; Greatrex & Lieu 2002, p. 121
  3. Martindale, Jones & eMorris (1992), p. 81–82

Sources

  • Bury, John Bagnell (1958). History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, Volume 2. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-486-20399-9.
  • Greatrex, Geoffrey; Lieu, Samuel N. C. (2002). The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (Part II, 363–630 AD). London, United Kingdom: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-14687-9.
  • Martindale, John Robert; Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin; Morris, J., eds. (1992). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume III: A.D. 527–641. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-20160-5.
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