# 573 > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/573 > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/573.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/573 > Source revision: 1332331069 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Calendar year This article is about the year 573. For other uses, see [573 (disambiguation)](/source/573_(disambiguation)). Calendar year Years Millennium 1st millennium Centuries 5th century 6th century 7th century Decades 550s 560s 570s 580s 590s Years 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 v t e 573 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Categories Births Deaths v t e 573 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 573 DLXXIII Ab urbe condita 1326 Armenian calendar 22 ԹՎ ԻԲ Assyrian calendar 5323 Balinese saka calendar 494–495 Bengali calendar −21 – −20 Berber calendar 1523 Buddhist calendar 1117 Burmese calendar −65 Byzantine calendar 6081–6082 Chinese calendar 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3270 or 3063 — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3271 or 3064 Coptic calendar 289–290 Discordian calendar 1739 Ethiopian calendar 565–566 Hebrew calendar 4333–4334 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 629–630 - Shaka Samvat 494–495 - Kali Yuga 3673–3674 Holocene calendar 10573 Iranian calendar 49 BP – 48 BP Islamic calendar 51 BH – 50 BH Javanese calendar 461–462 Julian calendar 573 DLXXIII Korean calendar 2906 Minguo calendar 1339 before ROC 民前1339年 Nanakshahi calendar −895 Seleucid era 884/885 AG Thai solar calendar 1115–1116 Tibetan calendar ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) 699 or 318 or −454 — to — ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 700 or 319 or −453 [Gregory of Tours](/source/Gregory_of_Tours) (c. 538–594) Year **573** (**[DLXXIII](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [common year starting on Sunday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Sunday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/Julian_calendar). The denomination 573 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 #### Byzantine Empire - [Byzantine–Sassanid War](/source/Byzantine%E2%80%93Sassanid_War_of_572%E2%80%93591): [Persian](/source/Sassanid_Empire) forces under the command of King [Khosrau I](/source/Khosrau_I) [capture](/source/Siege_of_Dara_(573)) the [Byzantine](/source/Byzantine_Empire) stronghold of [Dara](/source/Dara_(Mesopotamia)), after a six-month [siege](/source/Siege). Meanwhile, a smaller Persian army under [Adarmahan](/source/Adarmahan) advances from [Babylon](/source/Babylon) through the [desert](/source/Desert), crosses the [Euphrates River](/source/Euphrates) and ravages [Syria](/source/Syria_(Roman_province)). The cities of [Apamea](/source/Apamea%2C_Syria) and [Antiochia](/source/Antioch) are plundered.[1] #### Europe - King [Sigibert I](/source/Sigibert_I) goes to war against his half brother [Chilperic I](/source/Chilperic_I) of [Neustria](/source/Neustria) at the urging of his wife, [Brunhilda](/source/Brunhilda_of_Austrasia). He appeals to the [Germans](/source/Germans) on the right bank of the [Rhine](/source/Rhine) for help, and they obligingly attack the environs of [Paris](/source/Paris) and [Chartres](/source/Chartres). - The [Lombards](/source/Lombards) again raid Southern [Gaul](/source/Gaul), but are defeated by the [Franks](/source/Franks) under [Mummolus](/source/Mummolus), *[patricius](/source/Patrician_(post-Roman_Europe))* and son of the [Gallo-Roman](/source/Gallo-Roman_culture) count of [Auxerre](/source/Auxerre), and are driven out. - King [Cleph](/source/Cleph) completes the Lombard conquest of [Tuscany](/source/Tuscany) ([Central Italy](/source/Central_Italy)) and extends his [dominion](/source/Dominion) to the gates of [Ravenna](/source/Ravenna). - Sigibert I appoints [Gregory](/source/Gregory_of_Tours) to succeed his mother's cousin, [Eufronius](/source/Eufronius), as [bishop of Tours](/source/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Tours) (approximate date). #### Britain - [Battle of Arfderydd](/source/Battle_of_Arfderydd): Leading his warband, [Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio](/source/Gwenddoleu_ap_Ceidio) is slain by the sons of Eliffer, Gwrgi and [Peredur](/source/Peredur). [Myrddin Wyllt](/source/Myrddin_Wyllt) goes mad watching this defeat (according to the *[Annales Cambriae](/source/Annales_Cambriae)*).[2] ### By topic #### Religion - [Pope John III](/source/Pope_John_III) is forced by the Lombards to retire from [Rome](/source/Rome), and takes up residence at the [Catacombs](/source/Catacombs) along the [Via Appia](/source/Appian_Way) (approximate date). ## Births - [Abu Bakr](/source/Abu_Bakr), Muslim [Caliph](/source/Caliph) (approximate date) - [Chen Yin](/source/Chen_Yin_(6th_century)), [crown prince](/source/Crown_prince) of the [Chen dynasty](/source/Chen_dynasty) - [Dou Jiande](/source/Dou_Jiande), general of the [Sui dynasty](/source/Sui_dynasty) (d. [621](/source/621)) - [Jing Di](/source/Emperor_Jing_of_Northern_Zhou), emperor of [Northern Zhou](/source/Northern_Zhou) (d. [581](/source/581)) - [Lupus of Sens](/source/Lupus_of_Sens), French bishop (approximate date) ## Deaths - [June 11](/source/June_11) – [Emilian of Cogolla](/source/Emilian_of_Cogolla), [Iberic](/source/Iberian_Peninsula) saint (b. [472](/source/472)) - [Brendan of Birr](/source/Brendan_of_Birr), Irish [abbot](/source/Abbot) (approximate date) - [Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio](/source/Gwenddoleu_ap_Ceidio), Brythonic king - [Narses](/source/Narses), Byzantine general (b. [478](/source/478)) - [Wang Lin](/source/Wang_Lin_(general)), Chinese general (b. [526](/source/526)) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Greatrex & Lieu 2002](#CITEREFGreatrexLieu2002), pp. 146–149, 150 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Myles Dillon and Nora Chadwick, *The Celtic Realms* (New York: New American Library, 1967), p. 81 **Bibliography** - Greatrex, Geoffrey; Lieu, Samuel N. C. (2002). [*The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (Part II, 363–630 AD)*](https://books.google.com/books?id=zc8iAQAAIAAJ). New York, New York and London, United Kingdom: Routledge (Taylor & Francis). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-415-14687-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-415-14687-9). --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [573](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/573) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/573?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.