Editing 567 (section)

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Europe ====
* The [[Lombard–Gepid War (567)]] ends with a [[Lombards|Lombard]]-[[Pannonian Avars|Avar]] victory, and the annihilation of the [[Gepids]].
* [[Sigebert I]], king of [[Austrasia]], marries [[Brunhilda of Austrasia|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.<ref name="James317">''Charibert I'', Edward James, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity'', ed. Oliver Nicholson, (Oxford University Press, 2018), 317.</ref> 
* [[Liuva I]] succeeds his predecessor Athanagild, after an [[interregnum]] of five months, and becomes king of the [[Visigoths]].<ref>Isidore, chapter 46; translated by Donini and Ford, p. 22</ref>

====China====
*[[Three Disasters of Wu]]: Emperor [[Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou|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 [[Emperor Xuan of Northern Zhou|Xuan]].

=== By topic ===
==== Religion ====
* The [[Second Council of Tours]] is held. It decrees that any [[Clergy|cleric]] found in bed with his wife will be [[Excommunication|excommunicated]].
* [[John Scholasticus|John III]], [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|patriarch of Constantinople]], organizes a compromise between the [[Council of Chalcedon|Chalcedonians]] and [[Monophysites]].
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