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Heads of State
Year of the Earth Rat壬子( at the beginning of the year Metal Pig辛亥)
Era of Diocletian: 248/249 ( year November )
Syria: 843/844 (October)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Europe
- Chlothar I and Childebert I, king of the Franks, attack the Burgundian kingdom; be king Godomar is defeated at the Battle of Autun, Burgundy falls to the Franks.
- Construction of the church of St. Sophia in Serdica, after which the city will henceforth called Sofia.
Asia
- Perpetual peace between Byzantium and the Sassanid Empire, but which is already broken 540 by Chosroes I..
Culture, Science and Technology
- Spring: The new Great King Chosroes I. takes Damascius, Simplicius, and some other Greek philosophers in the Persian Sassanid Empire, who had to leave after the closure of the Platonic Academy in Athens, the Eastern Roman Empire.
- The destroyed during the Nika revolt Hagia Sophia is in the following years built from scratch ( last important architectural monument of antiquity ).
- Probably at this time of installation of the " Sunken Palace " in Constantinople Opel, a huge underground cistern for water supply construction of the Imperial Palace.
Religion
Born
- Around 532: Agnellus of Naples, Abbot ( † about 595 )
- Around 532: I. Guntram, King of the Franks of the Sub- kingdom of Burgundy († 592 )
Died
- Around 532: Nonnosus, Christian saint (c. 500)