512

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Contents

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

Italy

Asia

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

★ Emperor Anastasius I ends a period of moderate eclectic policy, and starts strongly favoring his own monophysitist beliefs.

Italy

★ Mount Vesuvius erupts again in southeastern Italy on the Mediterranean coast.

Asia

★ The island nation of Usan-guk is conquered by the Korean Silla Dynasty general Lee Sabu.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

★ Earliest known dated text in the Arabic alphabet, at Zebed in Syria.

★ June 29 — solar eclipse per Marcellinus Comes.

Religion

★ Flavian II, Patriarch of Antioch, is deposed and replaced with Severus.

Births

★ St. David patron saint of Wales

★ Wu Mingche

Deaths

★ Empress Dowager Wang Baoming