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Heads of State
Year of the Fire Hare丁卯( at the beginning of the year Fire Tiger丙寅)
Era of Diocletian: 263/264 ( year November )
Syria: 858/859 (October)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Europe
- Belisarius succeed in the Second Gothic war against the Ostrogoths, the capture of Rome, which he can hold two years.
- According to tradition, King Ida founds this year the northern English Kingdom of Bernicia. The British king of Bryneich sold by him from Bamburgh.
- The Lombards move their settlement area by 547 on the Sava and Danube lower Pannonia, after a war breaks out with the Ocean's Gepids under Turisind. The Lombards are supported by Byzantine troops.
Asia
Culture and Religion
- The Church of San Vitale in Ravenna is completed.
Died
- March 21: Benedict of Nursia, founder of the order (c. 480)
- End 547/Anfang 548: Theudebert I, King of the Franks (c. 500)