Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

• January 1 — Decimus Theodorius Paulinus is 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 (until 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)