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Map with all linked sites: | 526 | |
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| 526 in other calendars | |
| Ethiopian calendar | 518/519 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1069/70 (southern Buddhism); 1068/69 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 53rd (54th) cycle
Year of the fire horse丙午 ( at the beginning of the year wood snake 乙巳) |
| Jewish calendar | 4286/87 (23/24 September) |
| Coptic calendar | 242/243 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCCLXXIX (1279)
Diocletian's era : 242/243 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 836/837 (April)
Syria: 837/838 (October) |
| Spanish era | 564 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 582/583 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
- May 18 : Pope John I dies in Ravenna , a few days after he was imprisoned by Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths , as a result of imprisonment. The reason for the imprisonment was that Johannes' trip to Constantinople , where he was commissioned by Theodoric to persuade Emperor Justin I to adopt a policy that was more Arian-friendly , had failed.
- August 30th : Theodoric the Great dies, his ten-year-old grandson Athalaric succeeds under the reign of his mother Amalasuntha . The Ostrogoth empire is severely weakened by Theodoric's death and is conquered by Ostrom a few years later . The Ostrogothic allies Burgundy and Thuringia soon fall to the Franks .
- Roman-Persian Wars : The fighting between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Persians flared up again because Kavadh I wanted to enforce the Zoroastrian religion in Christian Iberia (today's Georgia ) .
religion
- July 12 : Felix III. becomes Bishop of Rome as the successor to John I , who died on May 18th in the custody of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric .
Disasters
- May 20 : An earthquake in Antioch in Syria kills at least 250,000 people and destroys almost all buildings in the city. After the earthquake, a fire follows, which destroys the remaining houses and above all the main church of the city, the "Great Church" with its golden dome, built by Constantine I. Also Seleucia Pieria , the port of the city, reportedly destroyed. The earthquake handed down by various historians is one of the most severe earthquakes documented. There will be aftershocks until May 29th .
- May 29th and 30th : The Illyrian city Lychnidos on Lake Ohrid is completely destroyed by an earthquake , many people perish.
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Died
- May 18 : John I , Pope
- August 30th : Theodoric the Great , King of the Ostrogoths
- 525 or 526: Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus , Roman statesman and philosopher
- after 526: Audofleda , daughter of Clovis I and wife of Theodoric the Great (* around 470 )
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