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Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

Europe

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

★ April 19 — Belisarius is defeated at the Battle of Callinicum; Mundus briefly takes command of the army.

★ Some members of the Blue and Green chariot racing factions in Constantinople are imprisoned for murder, precipitating the Nika riots the next year.

★ Building of St. Sophia Basilica, Constantinople, begun (-537)

Europe

★ Theudis succeeds Amalaric as king of the Visigoths.

★ The Franks and Saxons defeat the Kingdom of Thuringia.

Asia

★ End of the reign of Chang Guang Wang, ruler of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty.

★ Khosrau I succeeds Kavadh I as king of Persia.

Births

★ Yan Zhitui, Chinese scholar, official, calligrapher, painter, musician, writer, antiquarian, and Buddhist (d. 591)

Deaths

★ Amalaric, king of the Visigoths, killed in battle

★ Xiao Tong

★ Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei