568

Year 568 (DLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 568 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:
  • 565
  • 566
  • 567
  • 568
  • 569
  • 570
  • 571
568 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar568
DLXVIII
Ab urbe condita1321
Armenian calendar17
ԹՎ ԺԷ
Assyrian calendar5318
Balinese saka calendar489–490
Bengali calendar−25
Berber calendar1518
Buddhist calendar1112
Burmese calendar−70
Byzantine calendar6076–6077
Chinese calendar丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
3264 or 3204
     to 
戊子年 (Earth Rat)
3265 or 3205
Coptic calendar284–285
Discordian calendar1734
Ethiopian calendar560–561
Hebrew calendar4328–4329
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat624–625
 - Shaka Samvat489–490
 - Kali Yuga3668–3669
Holocene calendar10568
Iranian calendar54 BP – 53 BP
Islamic calendar56 BH – 55 BH
Javanese calendar456–457
Julian calendar568
DLXVIII
Korean calendar2901
Minguo calendar1344 before ROC
民前1344年
Nanakshahi calendar−900
Seleucid era879/880 AG
Thai solar calendar1110–1111
Tibetan calendar阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
694 or 313 or −459
     to 
阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
695 or 314 or −458

Events

By place

Europe

Britain

Asia

  • The Turks and Sassanids succeed in destroying the Hepthalites on the eastern frontier (approximate date).
  • A Turkish khan sends emissaries to the Byzantine Empire (approximate date).

By topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

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References

  1. Traditional date as given in William J. Langer, ed. An Encyclopedia of World History
  2. John of Biclaro, Chronicle 10. Translated by Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain, second edition (Liverpool: University Press, 1990), p. 60
  3. McClanan, p. 167
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