# 557

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Calendar year

Calendar year

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

557 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Categories Births Deaths Establishments Disestablishments v t e

557 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 557 DLVII Ab urbe condita 1310 Armenian calendar 6 ԹՎ Զ Assyrian calendar 5307 Balinese saka calendar 478–479 Bengali calendar −37 – −36 Berber calendar 1507 Buddhist calendar 1101 Burmese calendar −81 Byzantine calendar 6065–6066 Chinese calendar 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3254 or 3047 — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3255 or 3048 Coptic calendar 273–274 Discordian calendar 1723 Ethiopian calendar 549–550 Hebrew calendar 4317–4318 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 613–614 - Shaka Samvat 478–479 - Kali Yuga 3657–3658 Holocene calendar 10557 Iranian calendar 65 BP – 64 BP Islamic calendar 67 BH – 66 BH Javanese calendar 445–446 Julian calendar 557 DLVII Korean calendar 2890 Minguo calendar 1355 before ROC 民前1355年 Nanakshahi calendar −911 Seleucid era 868/869 AG Thai solar calendar 1099–1100 Tibetan calendar མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 683 or 302 or −470 — to — མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 684 or 303 or −469

Emperor [Chen Wu Di](/source/Emperor_Wu_of_Chen) (503–559)

Year **557** (**[DLVII](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [common year starting on Monday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Monday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/Julian_calendar). The denomination 557 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

### By place

#### Europe

- The [Avars](/source/Avar_Khaganate) arrive in the northern region of the [Caucasus](/source/Caucasus), between the [Black Sea](/source/Black_Sea) and the [Caspian Sea](/source/Caspian_Sea). They send envoys to the [Byzantines](/source/Byzantine_Empire) in [Lazica](/source/Lazica) (modern [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(country))). Like the [Huns](/source/Huns), the Avars are the former elite of a central Asian federation, which has been forced to flee westwards.[1]

#### Byzantine Empire

- [December 14](/source/December_14) – The [557 Constantinople earthquake](/source/557_Constantinople_earthquake) occurs.

#### Asia

- The [Western Wei](/source/Western_Wei) Dynasty ends: [Yuwen Hu](/source/Yuwen_Hu) deposes emperor [Gong Di](/source/Emperor_Gong_of_Western_Wei), and places [Yuwen Tai](/source/Yuwen_Tai)'s son [Xiaomin](/source/Emperor_Xiaomin_of_Northern_Zhou) on the throne. Yuwen Hu becomes [regent](/source/Regent) and establishes the [Northern Zhou](/source/Northern_Zhou) dynasty in China.

- [Ming Di](/source/Emperor_Ming_of_Northern_Zhou) is made emperor, after his younger brother Xiao Min Di is arrested while trying to assume power. Xiao Min Di is deposed and executed by Yuwen Hu.

- The [Liang dynasty](/source/Liang_dynasty) ends: [Chen Wu Di](/source/Emperor_Wu_of_Chen), a distinguished general, becomes the first emperor of the [Chen dynasty](/source/Chen_dynasty) in Southern China.

- The [Göktürks](/source/G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrks) under [Muqan Qaghan](/source/Muqan_Qaghan) ally with the [Persian Empire](/source/Sasanian_Empire), and destroy the [Hephthalites](/source/Hephthalite_Empire) (White Huns) in Central Asia.

### By topic

#### Religion

- King [Chlothar I](/source/Chlothar_I) of the [Franks](/source/Franks) founds the [Abbey of St. Medard](/source/Abbey_of_St._Medard%2C_Soissons) at [Soissons](/source/Soissons) (Northern France).

- The [Jiming Temple](/source/Jiming_Temple) in [Nanjing](/source/Nanjing) is built; the [Buddhist](/source/Buddhism) [pagoda](/source/Pagoda) is located near [Xuanwu Lake](/source/Xuanwu_Lake).

## Births

- [Dushun](/source/Dushun), Chinese ([Buddhist](/source/Chinese_Buddhism)) patriarch (d. [640](/source/640))

- [Gao Wei](/source/Gao_Wei), emperor of [Northern Qi](/source/Northern_Qi) (d. [577](/source/577))

- [Ouyang Xun](/source/Ouyang_Xun), [Confucian](/source/Confucianism) scholar (d. [641](/source/641))

## Deaths

- [March 14](/source/March_14) – [Leobinus](/source/Leobinus), [bishop of Chartres](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Chartres)

- *exact date unknown* - Saint [Cyriacus the Anchorite](/source/Cyriacus_the_Anchorite), legendary centenarian (b. [448](/source/448))[2] - [Xiao Min Di](/source/Emperor_Xiaomin_of_Northern_Zhou), emperor of [Northern Zhou](/source/Northern_Zhou) (b. [542](/source/542))[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Rome at War (AD 293–696), p. 59. Michael Whitby, 2002. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-84176-359-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-84176-359-4)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Panayiotis Tzamalikos (June 8, 2012). [*The Real Cassian Revisited: Monastic Life, Greek Paideia, and Origenism in the Sixth Century*](https://books.google.com/books?id=TRlCUGP8ZnEC&pg=PA135). BRILL. p. 135. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-90-04-22440-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-22440-7).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Jinhua Chen (2002). [*Monks and monarchs, kinship and kingship: Tanqian in Sui Buddhism and politics*](https://books.google.com/books?id=24kkAQAAIAAJ). Scuola italiana di studi sull'Asia orientale. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-4-900793-21-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-4-900793-21-7).

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