Uffa founds the kingdom of East Anglia in Britain.
572. Marcianus is sent by Rome to conduct the war against the Persians.
Alboin, Lombardy, grants allotments of territory to his chief captains, with titles of princes or dukes, for which they are to render military service.
573. Alboin, King of the Lombards, is murdered by Rosamond, his wife; she flees to Ravenna with her lover Helmichis, where she poisons him; before he dies he compels her to drain the cup. Cleoph is elected king of Lombardy.
The Visigoths subjugate the Suevi in Spain.
574. Tiberius is appointed Cæsar at Rome; he concludes a peace with the Persians. He is defeated by the Avars on the Danube.
Cleoph, the Lombard King, is slain; his son being a child, many of the dukes assume royal power and great anarchy prevails.
575. Justinian, son of Germanus, defeats the Persians and advances to the Araxes.
576. Armenia is occupied by the Persians; Justinian arrives too late to prevent it.
578. Death of Justin. Accession of the emperor Tiberius Constantinus in the East.