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Calendar overview 542
Map with all linked sites: | 542 | |
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| 542 in other calendars | |
| Ethiopian calendar | 534/535 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1085/86 (southern Buddhism); 1084/85 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 53rd (54th) cycle
Year of the Water Dog壬戌 ( at the beginning of the year metal rooster 辛酉) |
| Jewish calendar | 4302/03 (September 24/25) |
| Coptic calendar | 258/259 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCCXCV (1295)
Diocletian's era : 258/259 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 852/853 (April)
Syria: 853/854 (October) |
| Spanish era | 580 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 598/599 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Byzantine Empire
- Emperor Justinian I de facto abolishes the old Roman office of consul , even if the following rulers will hold this office for a few days for a few days when the government takes office.
- Belisarius takes command of the Eastern Roman troops in the Roman-Persian War against the Sassanids under Chosrau I.
Germanic empires in Europe
- Totila proclaims himself the new king of the Ostrogoths in Pavia . He then begins the Second Gothic War and besieged Florence without being able to take it.
- The Frankish campaign against the Visigoths , in the course of which Pamplona was captured but Saragossa withstood a siege, is broken off without result.
Disasters
- The Justinian plague that broke out in the eastern Mediterranean is also spreading in Europe. The pandemic shakes Constantinople and large parts of the empire. In the following four months, 100,000 of the almost 400,000 citizens of the capital die. Few of the sick survive, including Justinian I.
Died
Date of death secured
- August 27 : Caesarius of Arles , Archbishop of Arles, saint (* around 470 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Tribonianus , Eastern Roman lawyer
Died around 542
- Scholastica of Nursia , saint (* around 480 )
- Witichis , King of the Ostrogoths
Web links
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