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Millennium: 1st millennium
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566 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar566
DLXVI
Ab urbe condita1319
Armenian calendar15
ԹՎ ԺԵ
Assyrian calendar5316
Balinese saka calendar487–488
Bengali calendar−27
Berber calendar1516
Buddhist calendar1110
Burmese calendar−72
Byzantine calendar6074–6075
Chinese calendar乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
3263 or 3056
    — to —
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
3264 or 3057
Coptic calendar282–283
Discordian calendar1732
Ethiopian calendar558–559
Hebrew calendar4326–4327
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat622–623
 - Shaka Samvat487–488
 - Kali Yuga3666–3667
Holocene calendar10566
Iranian calendar56 BP – 55 BP
Islamic calendar58 BH – 57 BH
Javanese calendar454–455
Julian calendar566
DLXVI
Korean calendar2899
Minguo calendar1346 before ROC
民前1346年
Nanakshahi calendar−902
Seleucid era877/878 AG
Thai solar calendar1108–1109
Tibetan calendar阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
692 or 311 or −461
    — to —
阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
693 or 312 or −460

566 (DLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 566 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.

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Byzantine Empire

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Europe

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Francia

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  • A poet from Italy named Venantius Fortunatus arrives at the Merovingian court at Metz. With a strong grasp of traditional Roman poetry, Fortunatus impresses and entertains the Frankish royalty and aristocracy. The success of a Latin poet in Francia suggests that Roman culture persisted well after the Roman Empire disintegrated in Gaul in the late 5th century.[2]

Asia

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Unidentified

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References

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  1. ^ Martindale, Jones & Morris (1992) p. 753–754
  2. ^ Wickham, Chris (2005). Framing the Early Middle Ages. p. 175.
  3. ^ Connor, Steve (July 7, 2014). "Our explosive past is written in the Antarctic ice". i. London. p. 17.