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In the year 532
Construction
Eastern emperor Justinian orders the building of Santa Sophia (also called the Hagia Sophia), designed by Isidore of Miletus (Turkey), the first building with a dome large enough to cover a town square. The dome is actually a pendentive, formed by cutting off the sides of a hemisphere to produce a figure that covers a square and then slicing off the top, producing four upside-down "triangles" with curved sides joined at their upper bases. The pendentive dome itself is 37 m (120 ft) across and 14 m (46 ft) high, but rests on the top of a building, giving it a total height of 61 m (200 ft). Santa Sophia is the largest religious structure of its time. See also 126 ce Construction.
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This article is about the year 532. For the number (and other uses), see 532 (number). For the card game, see 532 (card game).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 500s 510s 520s – 530s – 540s 550s 560s |
| Years: | 529 530 531 – 532 – 533 534 535 |
| 532 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 532 DXXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1285 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 5282 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1312 – -1311 |
| Bengali calendar | -61 |
| Berber calendar | 1482 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1076 |
| Burmese calendar | -106 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6040 – 6041 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛亥年十二月初九日 (3168/3228-12-9) — to —
壬子年十一月十九日(3169/3229-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 248 – 249 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 524 – 525 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4292 – 4293 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 588 – 589 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 454 – 455 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3633 – 3634 |
| Holocene calendar | 10532 |
| Iranian calendar | 90 BP – 89 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 93 BH – 92 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2865 |
| Minguo calendar | 1380 before ROC 民前1380年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1075 |
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Year 532 (DXXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Second year after the Consulship of Lampadius and Probus (or, less frequently, year 1285 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 532 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Eastern Roman Empire
- January 11 – Nika riots in Constantinople: The cathedral is destroyed. They are put down a week later by Belisarius and Mundus; up to 30,000 people are killed in the Hippodrome.
- February 23 – Justinian I orders the building of a new cathedral in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
- Justinian signs a peace treaty, the "Eternal Peace", with the Sassanian shah Chosroes I, ending the Iberian War.
Europe
- The Franks invade the kingdom of Burgundy.
Asia
- Xiao Wu Di succeeds An Ding Wang in Northern China.
- Silla conquers Geumgwan Gaya on the Korean peninsula.
By topic
Arts and sciences
- First year in which the Anno Domini calendar is used for numbering the years.
Births
- Áedán mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riata (approximate date)
- Xiao Mohe
Deaths
- October 17 – Pope Boniface II
- Ecclesius, Bishop of Ravenna.
- Erzhu Shilong
- Erzhu Tianguang
- Emperor Jiemin of Northern Wei
- Yuan Lang
- Yuan Ye
- Sabbas the Sanctified
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