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Year of the Wood Snake乙巳( at the beginning of the year, Wood Dragon甲辰)

Era of Diocletian: 241/242 ( year November )

Syria: 836/837 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • Pope John I. seconded by Theodoric to Constantinople Opel to induce the Emperor Justin I to adjust the measures against the Arians in his kingdom.
  • Bernicias conquest by the Anglo-Saxons.
  • 525: Boethius was executed after several years of imprisonment by order of Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great for alleged conspiracy in Pavia. The same fate suffered by Boethius ' father Quintus Aurelius Symmachus Memmius, also a philosopher and senior civil servant.

Asia

  • A flood of the river Daisan destroyed the Syrian city of Edessa.

Science and Technology

  • The Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus proposes to let start the era with the birth of Christ. He calculated that this would have taken place 525 years ago and continues as the current year determined the year 525.
  • The architect Anthemius of Tralles is the focus of the parabola.

Born

  • 525: Alexandros of Tralles, Greek physician († 605 )
  • 525: Justinian, Eastern Roman commander († 582 )

Died

  • As Yusuf ʾ ʾ ar ar Yath, last important king of the Yemeni Himyarites
  • 525 or 526: Quintus Aurelius Symmachus Memmius, philosopher and politician executed,
  • 525: Boethius, the Roman philosopher ( * 480 /485)
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