570

570 (DLXX) was a common year beginning on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, in force on that date.

Events

• Failed Ethiopian expedition against Mecca.
• Running from the rebellious vandals to Byzantium, the monk Donato, with 70 monks and a large library, moved to Hispania, where he founded the monastery Servitano, of unknown location.
• The first campaign of the Visigoth king Leovigildo against the Byzantines: the king devastates the Bastetania.
• King Miro or Miron ascends to the Swedish throne.

Births

• Mohammed was born in Mecca (Arabic Peninsula). Son of a merchant of the Coraix tribe or Koreischitas. Other sources say he was born in 571 and others in 575.
• Childeberto II, a Frank King of Austrasia.

Deaths

• Teodomiro, king of the Suevos