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Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	530s 540s 550s 560s 570s
Years:	553 554 555 556 557 558 559

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556 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	556 DLVI
Ab urbe condita	1309
Armenian calendar	5 ԹՎ Ե
Assyrian calendar	5306
Balinese saka calendar	477–478
Bengali calendar	−37
Berber calendar	1506
Buddhist calendar	1100
Burmese calendar	−82
Byzantine calendar	6064–6065
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3253 or 3046 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3254 or 3047
Coptic calendar	272–273
Discordian calendar	1722
Ethiopian calendar	548–549
Hebrew calendar	4316–4317
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	612–613
- Shaka Samvat	477–478
- Kali Yuga	3656–3657
Holocene calendar	10556
Iranian calendar	66 BP – 65 BP
Islamic calendar	68 BH – 67 BH
Javanese calendar	444–445
Julian calendar	556 DLVI
Korean calendar	2889
Minguo calendar	1356 before ROC 民前1356年
Nanakshahi calendar	−912
Seleucid era	867/868 AG
Thai solar calendar	1098–1099
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

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.

Events

By place

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

King Cynric and his son Ceawlin of Wessex fight against the Britons at Beranburh, now identified as Barbury Castle (Wiltshire) in South West England.^[1]

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.

By topic

Religion

April 16 – The diplomatic representative (apocrisiarius) to Constantinople is elected as Pope Pelagius I, succeeding Vigilius as the 60th pope of Rome.

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

^ Myres, p. 162
^ Bury 1958, p. 119; Martindale, Jones & Morris 1992, pp. 752, 845–846; Greatrex & Lieu 2002, p. 121
^ 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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