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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