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Events

• 520: Theodoric the Great leaves his tomb in Ravenna build, the Mausoleum of Theodoric.
• 523: The philosopher Boethius, who had recently promoted before even the highest government officials in the Ostrogothic kingdom is, of King Theodoric on charges Boëthius have conspired against him, imprisoned the Great. In prison, Boethius wrote his major work The Consolation of Philosophy.
• 524: The Burgundians beat the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
• 525: In 1278 ( according to the Roman calendar ) proposes that the Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus to let start our era with the birth of Christ. He calculated that this would have occurred 525 years ago, ie in 753 by the Roman calendar. He sits as the current year determined the year 525.
• August 30 526: Theodoric the Great dies.
• August 1 527: Justinian I after the death of his uncle Justin I. succeeded him as East Roman Emperor.
• February 19 528: Justinian I orders the creation of the Corpus iuris Civilis.
• 529: Benedict of Nursia founded a monastery at Monte Cassino, and thus the Benedictine Order.
• 529: The Academy of Plato in Athens will be closed as a pagan remnant by Emperor Justinian I.. Some of the Academy philosophers (eg Simplicius ) find little later inclusion in Persia.