562

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	540s 550s 560s 570s 580s
Years:	559 560 561 562 563 564 565

562 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	562 DLXII
Ab urbe condita	1315
Armenian calendar	11 ԹՎ ԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	5312
Balinese saka calendar	483–484
Bengali calendar	−31
Berber calendar	1512
Buddhist calendar	1106
Burmese calendar	−76
Byzantine calendar	6070–6071
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3259 or 3052     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3260 or 3053
Coptic calendar	278–279
Discordian calendar	1728
Ethiopian calendar	554–555
Hebrew calendar	4322–4323
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	618–619
- Shaka Samvat	483–484
- Kali Yuga	3662–3663
Holocene calendar	10562
Iranian calendar	60 BP – 59 BP
Islamic calendar	62 BH – 61 BH
Javanese calendar	450–451
Julian calendar	562 DLXII
Korean calendar	2895
Minguo calendar	1350 before ROC 民前1350年
Nanakshahi calendar	−906
Seleucid era	873/874 AG
Thai solar calendar	1104–1105
Tibetan calendar	阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 688 or 307 or −465     — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 689 or 308 or −464

Tikal Temple from the main plaza (Guatemala)

Year 562 (DLXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 562 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Justinian I signs a peace treaty with the Persian Empire. The status quo ante is restored, with Lazica (modern Georgia) in Byzantine hands.
• Belisarius stands trial for corruption in Constantinople, possibly with Procopius acting as praefectus urbi. He is found guilty and sent to prison.
• End of the Lazic War: In the Fifty-Year Peace Treaty, King Khosrau I recognises Lazica as a Byzantine vassal state for an annual payment of 5,000 pounds of gold each year.
• December 23 – Justinian I re-consecrates Hagia Sophia after its dome is rebuilt. Paul the Silentiary, Byzantine poet, writes an epic poem (Ekphrasis).
• The last Ostrogothic strongholds at Verona and Brixia are taken by the Eastern Roman Empire, ending the Gothic War.

Europe

• King Sigebert I repels an attack on Austrasia by the Avars at Regensburg (Germany). He moves his capital from Reims to Metz (approximate date).

Asia

• Spring – Xiao Ming Di, age 20, succeeds his father Xuan Di as emperor of the Chinese Liang Dynasty.
• Silla, by order of king Jinheung, wages war upon Gaya (Three Kingdoms of Korea) and conquers it.
• The secondary capital Taiyuan in Northern Qi is rebuilt and becomes a center of Buddhism.

Mesoamerica

• The Maya state of Caracol (Belize) defeats King Wak Chan K'awiil (Double Bird) of Tikal in battle during the First Tikal-Calakmul War, ending his dynasty.

Deaths

• Dowager Cao, concubine of Xuan Di
• Dowager Gong, empress mother of Xuan Di
• Procopius, Byzantine historian (approximate date)
• Xuan Di, emperor of the Liang Dynasty (b. 519)