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Calendar overview 537
Map with all linked sites: | 537 | |
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 particularly fierce battles take place around the Porta Pinciana . |
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| 537 in other calendars | |
| Ethiopian calendar | 529/530 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1080/81 (southern Buddhism); 1079/80 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 53rd (54th) cycle
Year of the Fire Snake丁巳 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Dragon 丙辰) |
| Jewish calendar | 4297/98 (September 20-21) |
| Coptic calendar | 253/254 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCCXC (1290)
Diocletian's era : 253/254 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 847/848 (April)
Syria: 848/849 (October) |
| Spanish era | 575 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 593/594 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
- From January: During the Gothic War , the Ostrogoths begin to besiege the city of Rome , which Belisarius had conquered for the Eastern Roman Empire in the previous year ; particularly fierce battles take place around the Porta Pinciana . The long struggle for the city caused the actual destruction of the ancient cityscape, which survived the conquests by the Visigoths 410 and the Vandals 455 largely undamaged.
- March 29 : The Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I is Vigilius as anti-pope against the Pope ostgotenfreundlichen Silverius one; he hoped from this the recognition of the Monophysite doctrine.
- November 11th : Justinian I seizes Pope Silverius, deposed him for high treason and banished him to Patera in Asia Minor. A little later Justinian allows him to return to Italy, but Vigilius sends him to an island in the Gulf of Naples (Capri or Ponza), where he dies on December 2nd .
Culture and religion
- December 27 : The construction of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is completed and the basilica is inaugurated.
Born
- around 537: Theudebald , Frankish king († 555 )
Died
- December 2nd : Silverius , Pope
- Johannes Cottistis , Eastern Roman usurper
- Isidore of Miletus , Greek architect (* 442 )
- Fortunatus of Todi , bishop
- (According to tradition): Arthur , semi-legendary leader of the British against Anglo-Saxons, falls in the Battle of Camlann