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Calendar overview 532
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| 532 in other calendars | |
| Ethiopian calendar | 524/525 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1075/76 (Southern Buddhism); 1074/75 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 53rd (54th) cycle
Year of the Water Rat壬子 ( at the beginning of the year Metal Pig 辛亥) |
| Jewish calendar | 4292/93 (September 15/16) |
| Coptic calendar | 248/249 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MCCLXXXV (1285)
Era of Diocletian : 248/249 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 842/843 (April)
Syria: 843/844 (October) |
| Spanish era | 570 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese calendar) | 588/589 (New Year's April) |
events
politics and world affairs
Eastern Roman Empire/Persian Empire
- January 14-18: Nika Rebellion in Constantinople : The circus factions rise up against the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I and plan to appoint the military leader Flavius Hypatius (a nephew of Anastasios I ) as the new emperor. The military leaders Belisar and Narses are charged with putting down the rebels; more than 30,000 people die.
- January 19: Flavius Hypatius , proclaimed anti - emperor in the Nika rebellion , and his brother Flavius Pompeius are executed in Constantinople and their bodies thrown into the Sea of Marmara .
- Autumn: Justinian I concludes the so-called Eternal Peace with the Persian Sassanid Empire : he may keep areas of the empire in the east that have been occupied by Persians for a fee of 11,000 pounds of gold. But the peace was broken as early as 540 by Great King Chosrau I.
Frankish kingdom
- Chlothar I and Childebert I , kings of the Franks of the Merovingian dynasty , attack the Burgundian kingdom ; his king Godomar II is defeated in the Battle of Autun , Burgundy falls to the Frankish kingdom .
East Asia
- Korean Peninsula : Silla conquers small kingdom of Geumgwan Gaya . Daegaya takes control of what remains of the Gaya Federation.
culture, science and technology
- Spring: Chosrau I accepts Damascus , Simplicius and some other Greek philosophers in the Sassanid Empire, who had to leave the Byzantine Empire after the Platonic Academy in Athens was closed.
- The Hagia Sophia , which was destroyed during the Nika uprising , was subsequently completely rebuilt by order of Justinian under the architects Anthemios von Tralleis and Isidor von Milet (the last important monumental building of antiquity).
- The "Sunken Palace" in Constantinople, a huge underground cistern for water supply to the imperial palace, was probably built around this time .
religion and culture
- October 17: Pope Boniface II dies in Rome after a two-year pontificate . The conclave convened as a result is unable to agree on a successor by the end of the year.
- Start of construction of the St. Sophia Church in Serdica, after which the city will be called Sofia in the future .
Born
- around 532: Agnellus of Naples , abbot of San Gaudioso near Naples († around 595)
- around 532: Guntram I. , Frankish king of the Burgundy sub-kingdom († 592)
Died
Date of death secured
- January 19: Flavius Hypatius , Eastern Roman senator and anti-emperor, leader of the Nika rebellion
- January 19: Flavius Pompey , Eastern Roman patrician, leader of the Nika rebellion
- October 17: Boniface II , Pope
- 5 December: Sabas , monk and hermit in Jerusalem (b. c. 439)
Died around 532
- Guengalaenus , Welsh Benedictine and missionary in Brittany (* after 460)
- Nonnosus , Christian saint (* c. 500)
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