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Year of the Metal Monkey庚申(at the beginning of Earth Sheep己未)

Era of Diocletian: 256/257 ( year November )

Syria: 851/852 (October)

Events

Mai: The Eastern Roman forces under Belisarius manages the conquest of the Ostrogothic royal seat of Ravenna. Witichis is taken prisoner and brought to Constantinople Opel. The Ostrogothic resistance is Hildebad continued.
Walthari will be the new duke of the Lombards as the successor of Wacho.
Emperor Justinian can be expanded several cities and secure, including Gafsa in Africa and Nicopolis in Western Greece.
20 June: Total Solar Eclipse in Sardinia, Rome, Dalmatia and Moesia.
539/40: hunno - Bulgarians invade the Byzantine Empire and come to Corinth and Konstantin Opel ago.

Renewed outbreak of fighting between the Sassanid Empire under Khosrau I and the Eastern Roman Empire under Justinian I in April: The Persians break the first 532 closed Perpetual Peace. The war goes to 561 / 562. The Sassanids grab it (in vain ) the important fortress of Dara and can conquer the 526 and 539 of the earthquake -stricken Antioch, the most important metropolis of the Roman Orient.
After Soga no Iname can prevail in Japan during a political debate, he was appointed as the first of the Soga clan to the highest ministers ( Ō- omi ).

Pope Vigilius speaks in letters to Emperor Justinian and Patriarch of Constantinople Opel, Mennas, vehemently opposed the Monophysite doctrine from.
Germanus is Bishop of Paris.

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