538

Calendar overview 538

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538
The Kofun period in Japan ends: Barrows ( Kofun ) are no longer used by the ruling families.
538 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar	530/531
Buddhist calendar	1081/82 (southern Buddhism); 1080/81 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	53rd (54th) cycle Year of the Earth-Horse戊午 ( at the beginning of the year Fire-Snake 丁巳)
Jewish calendar	4298/99 (September 10-11)
Coptic calendar	254/255
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MCCXCI (1291) Diocletian's era : 254/255 (New Year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 848/849 (April) Syria: 849/850 (October)
Spanish era	576
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	594/595 (turn of the year April)

Events

Course of the Gothic Wars from 535

Restauratio imperii : The Gothic War of the Eastern Roman Empire against the Ostrogoths in Italy leads to famine and devastation; Milan , which was conquered by Eastern Roman troops, is recaptured by the Ostrogoths after a bitter struggle. Emperor Justinian I sent his general Narses to Italy, but he was in conflict with the Belisarius who was already thereand was recalled. The Ostrogoths had tobreak offthe siege of Rome in March after a year, on the Adriatic the Eastern Romans penetrated from the south to Rimini .

Beginning of a wave of transition of a part of the Japanese nobility from Shinto to Buddhism : Armed conflicts as a result.
End of the Kofun period in Japan: Barrows ( Kofun ) are no longer used by the ruling families.

February 8 : Severus of Antioch , Monophysite Patriarch of Antioch (* around 456 )
Fridolin von Säckingen , messenger of faith on the Upper Rhine, abbot in Säckingen
after 538: Damascius , late antique philosopher (* around 462 )

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