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Contents

Events

By Place

Ancient China

Byzantine Empire

Europe

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Ancient China

★ Tribesmen rebells.

Byzantine Empire

★ January 1 — Decimus Theodorius Paulinus appointed consul, the last to hold this office in the West.

★ November 16 — A second and final revision of the ''Codex Justinianus'' is published.

★ Gelimer surrenders to Byzantine general Belisarius, after spending a miserable winter in the mountains of Numidia. The Vandal kingdom of North Africa ends, and the provinces return to the Byzantine Empire.

★ Malta becomes a Byzantine province (-870)

Europe

★ Toledo becomes the capital of the Visigoths in Spain

★ The Frankish kings Cothar I and Childebert I overthrow Godomar, king of the Burgundians, and end the Kingdom of Burgundy.

★ Cynric becomes the King of Wessex.

★ Theodahad becomes king of the Ostrogoths.

Births

★ Taliesin, Welsh poet (approximate date)

★ Empress Liu Jingyan

★ Emperor Ming of Northern Zhou

Deaths

★ October 2 — Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths

★ Anthemius of Tralles, mathematician and architect (approximate date)

★ Cerdic, first king of West Saxons

★ Theuderic I of Austrasia (or 533)