The name of Qabus ibn al-Mundhir, who had succeeded his slain brother 'Amr III ibn al-Mundhir as Lakhmid king in 569, is an Arabic form of the Persian name "Kavus", adopted under the influence of his Sassanid Persian overlords.

Not much is known of his reign except that he suffers a heavy defeat at the hands of the rival Constantinople-sponsored Ghassanid tribe under Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Harith in 570.

The Avars attack Illyricum in 570.

The Slavs, allying with the more powerful Avars to plunder the Danube Basin, together erase almost all trace of Christian life in Dalmatia and the northwestern parts of present-day Yugoslavia.

Justin has campaigned against the Avars ravaging the Danubian frontier but is forced to come to terms with them in 571.

Justin, initially hoping to bring about a union of the dissident Monophysite Christian factions and then to unite them with the orthodox church, had allowed them a measure of toleration in the early part of his reign.

In March 571, however, he inaugurates a policy of persecution and issues a lengthy antimonophysitic creed, requiring all clergy to sign it under penalty of imprisonment.

The part of Armenia governed by Persia revolts in 571 and requests assistance from the Roman Empire.

One Cuthwulf, an Anglo-Saxon leader, fights against the British at Bedcanford and takes the towns of Limbury, Aylesbury, Benson, and Eynsham in the Chiltern Hills or Oxfordshire, and dies in this year.

Kimmei, the twenty-ninth emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, and the first to whom contemporary historiography assigns clear dates, was the son of Emperor Keitai and Princess Tashiraka, Emperor Ninken's daughter.

Known during his lifetime by the name Amehara Oshiharaki Hironiwa or Amekuni Oshiharaki Hironiwa, he has established or moved his court to Shikishima no Kanazashi Palace in Yamato.

Mononobe no Okoshi and Nakatomi no Kanamura are both appointed Ōmuraji, and Soga no Iname is appointed Ōomi.

Although the imperial court will not move to the Asuka region of Japan until 592, Emperor Kimmei's rule is considered by some to be the beginning of the Asuka period of Yamato Japan, particularly those who associate the Asuka period primarily with the introduction of Buddhism to Japan from Korea.

With the introduction of a new religion to the court, a deep rift has developed between the Mononobe clan, who supported the worship of Japan's traditional deities, and the Soga clan, who supported the adoption of Buddhism.

Because of several temporal discrepancies in the account of Emperor Kimmei in the Nihon Shoki (sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, an early eighth-century work written in classical Chinese, as is common for official documents at this time), some believe that his is actually a rival court to that of successive Emperors Ankan and Senka.

Bidatsu, the second son of Emperor Kimmei by his consort Iwahime, a daughter of Emperor Senka, had been appointed crown prince by his father; after Kimmei dies in 572, Bidatsu ascends to the throne within a few days.

Guntram, well endowed with the political skills of prudence and duplicity, has striven to prevent either of his two remaining brothers, Chilperic and Sigebert, from gaining too great a power, allying now with the one, now with the other.

The Lombards overcome a long and powerful resistance to finally take Pavia, on the Ticino River, in 572.

Alboin, impressed, establishes the city as the capital of the newly created Lombard kingdom.

The brothers Liuwa and Liuvigild, led by the latter, have banished the imperial civil servants and worked to unify the Iberian Peninsula.

Their efforts are more or less successful, except in the north, where the Basques, Cantabrians, and Asturians manage to hold out against them.

They maintain trade connections with the Eastern Roman Empire, thus maintaining Hispania’s urban culture as well as its commercial and cultural connections within the Mediterranean area.

By this time the language of the Visigoths is no longer Germanic, the Latin of Hispania having evolved into into what will become Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish.