Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

• April — Belisarius, a general in the service of Justinian I, lands in Italy
• Belisarius takes Naples.
• 9 December — Belisarius enters Rome.
• The St. Sophia Basilica in Constantinople (begun in 532) is completed.

Europe

• The Franks invade Provence.
• Witiges succeeds Theodahad as ruler of the Ostrogoths.

By Topic

• June 1 or June 8 — Pope Silverius succeeds Pope Agapetus I.
• Synod of Constantinople: Bishops acknowledge the supremacy of the emperor in church matters.
• Anthimus is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople in favour of Mennas.
• And it came about during this year that a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during this whole year, and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear nor such as it is accustomed to shed. And from the time when this thing happened men were free neither from war nor pestilence nor any other thing leading to death. -- Procopios See Extreme weather events of 535-536.

Births

• Agathias, Greek poet and historian
• Evagrius Scholasticus, church historian (or 537)
• Empress Dowager Li Ezi

Deaths

• April 22 — Pope Agapetus I
• Theodahad, king of the Ostrogoths (assassinated)
• Mundus, Byzantine general (in battle in Dalmatia)

References