534

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Year 534 (DXXXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Iustinianus and Paulinus (or, less frequently, year 1287 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 534 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 1 – Decimus Theodorius Paulinus is appointed consul (the last to hold this office in the West).
• November 16 – A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
• Gelimer surrenders to Byzantine general Belisarius, after spending a miserable winter in the mountains of Numidia. The Vandal kingdom of North Africa ends, and the provinces return to the Byzantine Empire.
• Malta becomes a Byzantine province (until 870).

Europe

• Toledo becomes the capital of the Visigoths in Spain.
• The Frankish kings Cothar I and Childebert I overthrow Godomar, king of the Burgundians, and end the Kingdom of Burgundy.
• Cynric becomes the King of Wessex.
• Theodahad becomes king of the Ostrogoths.

Births

• Taliesin, Welsh poet (approximate date)
• Empress Liu Jingyan
• Emperor Ming of Northern Zhou

Deaths

• October 2 – Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths
• Anthemius of Tralles, mathematician and architect (approximate date)
• Cerdic, first king of West Saxons
• Theuderic I of Austrasia (or 533)

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