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Heads of state

547
San Vitale in Ravenna
The Church of San Vitale in Ravenna is completed.
547 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar 539/540
Buddhist calendar 1090/91 (southern Buddhism); 1089/90 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 54th (55th) cycle

Year of the Fire Rabbit 丁卯 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Tiger 丙寅)

Jewish calendar 4307/08 (September 1st and 2nd)
Coptic calendar 263/264
Roman calendar from urbe condita MCCC (1300)

Diocletian's era : 263/264 (turn of the year November)

Seleucid era Babylon: 857/858 (April)

Syria: 858/859 (October)

Spanish era 585
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 603/604 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Europe

Course of the Gothic Wars
  • Belisarius succeeds in taking Rome in the Second Gothic War against the Ostrogoths , which he can hold for two years.
  • According to tradition, King Ida founded the northern English Kingdom of Bernicia this year . The British King of Bryneich is driven from Bamburgh by him .
  • The Lombards move their settlement area around 547 to the Save and Lower Danube to Pannonia, whereupon a war breaks out with the native Gepids under Turisind . The Lombards are supported by Eastern Roman troops.

Asia

Culture and religion

Born

  • around 547: Phocas , Eastern Roman Emperor († 610 )

Died

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