Lombards invade Italy
King Alboin leads his people from Pannonia over the Alps
In spring 568 King Alboin's Lombards left Pannonia to the Avars and invaded war-ravaged Italy. They quickly took the north, captured Pavia in 572, and for two centuries the peninsula was divided between the Lombards and Byzantium.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- c. 570 Year of the Elephant — 2 years later
Asia
- 552 Founding of the First Turkic Khaganate — 16 years earlier
- 589 Sui dynasty reunifies China — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Khosrow I (aged 67)