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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Hare丁卯( at the beginning of the year Fire Tiger丙寅)

Era of Diocletian: 263/264 ( year November )

Syria: 858/859 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • Belisarius succeed in the Second Gothic war against the Ostrogoths, the capture of Rome, which he can hold two years.
  • According to tradition, King Ida founds this year the northern English Kingdom of Bernicia. The British king of Bryneich sold by him from Bamburgh.
  • The Lombards move their settlement area by 547 on the Sava and Danube lower Pannonia, after a war breaks out with the Ocean's Gepids under Turisind. The Lombards are supported by Byzantine troops.

Asia

  • 547 or 552: campaign of the Yemeni ruler Abraha against Mecca.

Culture and Religion

  • The Church of San Vitale in Ravenna is completed.

Died

  • End 547/Anfang 548: Theudebert I, King of the Franks (c. 500)
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