562. Conspiracy of Marcellus and Sergius against Justinian; Belisarius unjustly accused of having taken part in the plot.
563. Belisarius is acquitted of the charges brought against him; he is restored to his honors.
St. Columba founds the monastery of Iona in Scotland.
565. Death of Belisarius, also of the emperor Justinian. Justin II succeeds to the throne.
566.[78] Alboin, at the head of the Lombards, and aided by the Avars, destroys the kingdom of the Gepidæ in Pannonia.
War in Britain between the kings of Kent and Wessex.
567. Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgundy formed by the division of the Frankish kingdom.
568. Invasion of Italy by the Lombards; Pavia besieged. Longinus, the successor of Narses, is styled the exarch of Ravenna by the Byzantines.
570.[79] Birth of Mahomet. See [THE HEGIRA], iv, 198. Death of Narses.
571. Khusrau persecuting the Armenians, they place themselves under the protection of Justin; this leads to war between the Persians and Romans.