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Events

• April 1 - King Alboin leads the Lombards into Italy; refugees fleeing from them go on to found Venice.
• Leovigild succeeds his brother Livva I as king of the Visigoths.
• Æthelric succeeds his brother Adda as king of Bernicia (traditional date).
• Ceawlin of Wessex defeats Ethelbert of Kent.
• Sigebert I of Austrasia repels an attack from the Avars.
• Fredegund becomes the mistress of Chilperic I after the murder of Galswintha.
• The Turks and Sassanians succeed in destroying the Hepthalite empire.

Births

Deaths

• Adda , king of Bernicia (traditional date)
• Galswintha, wife of Chilperic I of Neustria