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Heads of state

Calendar overview 533
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Justinian I, mosaic detail from the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna
With the Vandals war begins under Emperor Justinian I , the Renovatio imperii .
Simon Petrus, partial view of the picture The Four Apostles by Albrecht Dürer
The Bishop of Rome becomes head of all the churches in Christianity .
533 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar 525/526
Buddhist calendar 1076/77 (southern Buddhism); 1075/76 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 53rd (54th) cycle

Year of the water buffalo癸丑 ( at the beginning of the year water rat 壬子)

Jewish calendar 4293/94 (September 4/5)
Coptic calendar 249/250
Roman calendar from urbe condita MCCLXXXVI (1286)

Diocletian's era : 249/250 (New Year November)

Seleucid era Babylon: 843/844 (April)

Syria: 844/845 (October)

Spanish era 571
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 589/590 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Europe 533–600 (picture below)

Franconian Empire

Gold Solidus Theudeberts based on the Eastern Roman model

Eastern Roman Empire

Africa / Restauratio imperii

Course of the vandal war 533/534
  • The Gothic nobleman Godas , who was appointed administrator of the province of Sardinia by Gelimer , the king of the Vandals in North Africa , declares himself ruler of the island and contacts the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I in order to establish his own Sardinian principality . Gelimer then sends his brother Tzazo to Sardinia with the vandal force. This conquers Cagliari and kills Godas. A rescue mission sent by Justinian comes too late.
  • Goda's revolt turns out to be devastating for the Vandal Empire. Because while Tzazo was in Sardinia with the Vandal Army, a Byzantine army under the command of Belisarius landed without a fight near Caput Vada in September with the intention of reincorporating North Africa into the Byzantine Empire . The vandal war begins. Gelimer then has Hilderich , whom he overthrew three years ago, murdered in captivity in order to prevent his re-accession to the throne.
  • September 13th : In the battle of Ad Decimum , south of Carthage , the Eastern Roman general Belisarius defeats the Vandals . The next day he enters Carthage.
  • December 15 : The Eastern Roman troops under Belisarius defeat the Vandals in the Battle of Tricamarum , with which Gelimer's attempt to recapture Carthage fails. Shortly afterwards, Belisarius also moves into Hippo Regius , while Gelimer has to retreat to a fortress in the Atlas Mountains . The Vandal empire falls to the east.

religion

On January 2, after a two-month conclave, John II ascends the chair of Peter as the successor to Boniface II, who died the previous year , after having given up the pagan name of Mercury. He is the first Pope to adopt a new name. John states that the election of a Pope requires the approval of the Ostrogothic king. After the fall of the Ostrogoths, this right was transferred to the Eastern Roman emperors.

Ursicinus on an apse mosaic in Sant'Apollinare in Classe

Disasters

Died

Representation of Remigius in Königswinter

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