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Events

• 540 : The first phase of the Gothic War ends with the capture of Ravenna by Eastern Roman troops . King Witichis is imprisoned by the emperor and Italy is subject to Eastern Roman rule.
• 540: New outbreak of fighting between the Sassanid Empire under Great King Chosrau I and the Eastern Roman Empire under Justinian I. The Great King conquers several cities in Syria , including Antioch on the Orontes . The war will last until 561 / 562 at.
• 541 : Beginning of the second phase of the Gothic War.
• 541: The Justinian Plague , as the first major plague pandemic is called, breaks out. From then on it was to haunt the Mediterranean area again and again for more than two centuries until it disappears around 760 for around six hundred years (until 1347 ).

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