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Calendar overview 550
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| 550 in other calendars | |
| Ethiopian calendar | 542/543 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1093/94 (southern Buddhism); 1092/93 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 54th (55th) cycle
Year of the Metal Horse庚午 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Snake 己巳) |
| Jewish calendar | 4310/11 (August 28-29) |
| Coptic calendar | 266/267 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCCCIII (1303)
Diocletian's era : 266/267 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 860/861 (April)
Syria: 861/862 (October) |
| Spanish era | 588 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 606/607 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Europe
- before 550: Formation of the Bavarian tribe south-east of the Danube and Lech , who presumably partly immigrate from Bohemia ; they come under the control of the Franconian Empire .
Asia
- Beginning of the northern Qi dynasty in China ; it replaces the Eastern Wei .
- around 550: The Indochinese empire Chenla achieves independence from Funan .
- around 550: Beginning of the Indian Chalukya dynasty.
America
- around 550: Beginning of the (first) decline of Teotihuacán
- approx. 550 to 700: Long-lasting wars between the cities of Tikal and Calakmul and their vassals
Culture and sport
- In Rome - under the rule of the Ostrogoth king Totila - the last chariot race takes place in the Circus Maximus .
- Around 550: The Vendelzeit begins in Sweden , named after a region in the central Swedish province of Uppland . The so-called Vendelhelm appears for the first time.
religion
- 550: The Holy Saint Arbogast , who later became Bishop of Strasbourg , comes as a missionary of Christianity to Alsace .
- around 550: St. Martin von Dume converts the Iberian Suebi to Christianity.
- around 550: The Aquitaine priest Goar begins his missionary work in today's Sankt Goar am Rhein .
Born
- around 545/550 : Brunichild , Merovingian Queen of Franks († 613 )
- around 550: St. Gallus , monk, founder of the city of St. Gallen († 640 )
- around 550: Gailswintha , Queen of the Franks of Visigothic origin († 567 )
- around 550: Abū Tālib ibn ʿAbd al-Muttalib , uncle and patron of the Prophet Mohammed († 619 )
- around 550: Finbarr , bishop and patron saint of Cork († 623 )
- around 550: John the Alms Giver , Patriarch of Alexandria († 619 )
Died
- Germanus , Eastern Roman general
- around 550: Aryabhata , Indian mathematician (* 476 )
- around 550: Eustathius of Mtskheta , Orthodox saint
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