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547
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

• 547 or 552 : Campaign of the Yemeni ruler Abraha against Mecca

Culture and religion

• The Church of San Vitale in Ravenna is completed.

Born

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

Died

• March 21 : Benedict of Nursia , founder of the order (* around 480 )
• Late 547 / early 548 : Theudebert I , Frankenkönig (* around 500 )

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