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Sci & Tech Chronology: 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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Gregorian calendar 532
DXXXII
Ab urbe condita 1285
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -1312 – -1311
Berber calendar 1482
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)
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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
 - Vikram Samvat 587 – 588
 - 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
Thai solar calendar 1075


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