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Contents

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

Europe

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

★ General Belisarius conquers Milan and the Ostrogothic capital Ravenna.

★ The Sassanids attack Daraa and capture Antioch.

★ Huns and Bulgars raid Greece.

Europe

★ Ostrogoth king Witiges is succeeded by Ildibad.

★ High King Custennin ap Cado of Britain is deposed and returns to Dumnonia.

By Topic

Religion

★ Pope Vigilius rejects Monophysitism in letters to Emperor Justinian I and Patriarch Mennas of Constantinople.

★ The former Roman senator Cassiodorus establishes a monastery, the Vivarium, on his estate in Italy. He enlists highly educated and sophisticated men to copy both sacred and secular manuscripts, intending this to be their sole occupation (approximate date).

Births

★ Pope Gregory I (approximate date)

★ Galswintha, wife of Chilperic I

★ Myrddin Wyllt, later wild man of the woods and possible source for Merlin (approximate date)

Deaths

★ Dionysius Exiguus (approximate date)

★ Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths

★ Empress Yifu

★ Empress Yujiulü