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Contents

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

Europe

Asia

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

★ November 14 — Justin II succeeds Justinian I as Emperor.

Europe

★ August 22 — St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.

★ Alboin succeeds his father Audoin as king of the Lombards.

Asia

★ Hou Zhu succeeds Wu Cheng Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Qi Dynasty

★ The Uyghurs are conquered by the Göktürks.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

★ Agathias begins to write a history beginning where Procopius finished his work.

Religion

★ January 22 — Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.

★ Columba begins preaching in the Orkney Islands.

Births

★ Empress Yuan Leshang, an empress of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in China, later became a Buddhist nun who lived as a recluse, dying at an unknown date (yet was still alive during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, which ended in 649)

Deaths

★ November 13 (or 14) — Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor

★ Belisarius, Byzantine general

★ Procopius of Caesarea, historian

★ Audoin, king of the Lombards