565
| Centuries: | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |
| Decades: | 530s 540s 550s 560s 570s 580s 590s |
| Years: | 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 |
Eastern Hemisphere in 565AD.
| 565 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 565 DLXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1318 |
| Armenian calendar | 14 ԹՎ ԺԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1279 – -1278 |
| Bengali calendar | -28 |
| Berber calendar | 1515 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1109 |
| Burmese calendar | -73 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6073 – 6074 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲申年十一月十四日 (3201/3261-11-14) — to —
乙酉年十一月廿四日(3202/3262-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | 281 – 282 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 557 – 558 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4325 – 4326 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 621 – 622 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 487 – 488 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3666 – 3667 |
| Holocene calendar | 10565 |
| Iranian calendar | 57 BP – 56 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 59 BH – 58 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2898 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1108 |
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- November 14—Justin II succeeds Justinian I as Emperor.
Europe
- August 22—St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
- Alboin succeeds his father Audoin as king of the Lombards.
Asia
- Hou Zhu succeeds Wu Cheng Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Qi Dynasty
- The Uyghurs are conquered by the Göktürks.
By topic
Arts and sciences
- Agathias begins to write a history beginning where Procopius finished his work.
Religion
- January 22—Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
- Columba begins preaching in the Orkney Islands.
Births
- Empress Chen Yueyi
- Empress Yuan Leshang, an empress of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in China, later became a Buddhist nun who lived as a recluse, dying at an unknown date (yet was still alive during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, which ended in 649)
Deaths
- November 13 (or 14)—Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor
- Belisarius, Byzantine general
- Procopius of Caesarea, historian
- Audoin, king of the Lombards