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Year of the Metal Rooster辛酉( at the beginning of the year Metal Monkey庚申)

Era of Diocletian: 257/258 ( year November )

Syria: 852/853 (October)

Events

In the leadership of the Ostrogoths, the hard- assert themselves in northern Italy against the East Roman army, there will be crises: The sequel to the Witichis Hildebad, ruled only over a year before he is murdered at a banquet of a Gepids. It is followed by Erarich, a Rugians, which is not recognized by the Ostrogothic nobility and therefore must assign or 541. Finally, Totila, is the nephew of Hildebad new leader of the Ostrogoths. He finally manages to strengthen the will to resist his people, especially Emperor Justinian I must deduct the fight against the Sassanid a part of his troops.
John the Cappadocian loses his position as East Roman praetorian prefect as a result of court intrigue and is exiled to Cyzicus.

541/542: campaign of the Frankish kings Childebert I and Clotaire I. against the Visigoths under Theudis. You come up against Zaragoza, which is, however, besieged in vain.
Anicius Faustus Albinus Basilius is the last reigning consul ordinarius before the de facto abolition of the office in the following year.

January 2: An earthquake rocked Laodicea.
The so-called Justinian plague, as the first great plague pandemic is called, breaks out in Egypt. You will surely visit from then on for over two centuries mankind in the Mediterranean with its cyclical recurrence. It is approximately 760 disappear for about six hundred years to 1347.

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