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• The Lombard–Gepid War (567) ends with a Lombard-Avar victory, and the annihilation of the Gepids.
• Sigebert I, king of Austrasia, marries Brunhilda, and his half brother Chilperic I marries Galswintha, both daughters of the Visigothic king Athanagild.
• King Charibert I dies without an heir; his realm (region Neustria and Aquitaine) is divided between his brothers Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I.Charibert I, Edward James, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, ed. Oliver Nicholson, (Oxford University Press, 2018), 317.
• Liuva I succeeds his predecessor Athanagild, after an interregnum of five months, and becomes king of the Visigoths.Isidore, chapter 46; translated by Donini and Ford, p. 22

• Three Disasters of Wu: Emperor Wu Di of the Northern Zhou dynasty initiates the second persecution of Buddhists in China. This persecution continues until he is succeeded by his son Emperor Xuan.

• The Second Council of Tours is held. It decrees that any cleric found in bed with his wife will be excommunicated.
• John III, patriarch of Constantinople, organizes a compromise between the Chalcedonians and Monophysites.

• Ingund, wife of Hermenegild (or 568)

• June 5 – Theodosius I, patriarch of Alexandria
• Athanagild, king of the Visigoths{{cite book |last1=McKitterick |first1=Rosamond |last2=Fouracre |first2=Paul |last3=Reuter |first3=Timothy |last4=Abulafia |first4=David |last5=Luscombe |first5=David Edward |last6=Allmand |first6=C. T. |last7=Riley-Smith |first7=Jonathan |last8=Jones |first8=Michael |title=The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 1, C.500-c.700 |date=1995 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521362917 |page=183 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcmwuoTsKO0C&pg=PA183|language=en}}
• Charibert I, king of the Franks
• Cissa, king of the South Saxons
• Cunimund, king of the Gepids

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