Events Events Ida founds the kingdom of Bernicia at Bamburgh (traditional date). ... Events Belisarius is relieved of command over the Byzantine forces in Italy and replaced with Narses. ... Events Emperor Jinwen succeeds Emperor Wu as ruler of the Liang Dynasty in China. ... Events End of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and beginning of the Northern Qi Dynasty in northern China. ... Events July - Battle of Taginae: The Byzantine general Narses defeats and kills Totila, king of the Ostrogoths. ... Events The Ostrogoth Kingdom is conquered by the Byzantines after the Battle of Mons Lactarius. ... Events The Byzantine general Narses reconquers all of Italy. ... For other uses, see number 555. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... Centuries: 5th Century - 6th Century - 7th Century Decades: 470s - 480s - 490s - 500s - 510s - 520s - 530s - 540s - 550s - 560s - 570s Years: 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 Events and Trends Maelgwn Hir ap Cadwallon, perhaps legendary, assumes the throne of Gwynedd in Great Britain (possible date... Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century Decades: 480s - 490s - 500s - 510s - 520s - 530s - 540s - 550s - 560s - 570s - 580s Years: 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 Events and Trends Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, built (532-537) General Belisarius fights many campaigns defeating, among others, the Vandals... Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century Decades: 490s - 500s - 510s - 520s - 530s - 540s - 550s - 560s - 570s - 580s - 590s Years: 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 Events and Trends The Eastern Roman Empire conquers Milan and the Ostrogoth capital of Ravenna in 540. ... Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century Decades: 500s - 510s - 520s - 530s - 540s - 550s - 560s - 570s - 580s - 590s - 600s Years: 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 Events and Trends Categories: 550s ... Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century Decades: 510s - 520s - 530s - 540s - 550s - 560s - 570s - 580s - 590s - 600s - 610s Years: 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 Events and Trends The Byzantine conquest of Italy, completed in 560, comes to a premature end with the entrance... Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century Decades: 520s - 530s - 540s - 550s - 560s - 570s - 580s - 590s - 600s - 610s - 620s Years: 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 Events and Trends Birth of Muhammad, prophet of Islam, (possibly) Category: ... Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century Decades: 530s - 540s - 550s - 560s - 570s - 580s - 590s - 600s - 610s - 620s - 630s Years: 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 Events and Trends The Sui Dynasty unites China for the first time since the fall of the Western Jin... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... // Overview Events Romulus Augustus, Last Western Roman Emperor 410: Rome sacked by Visigoths 452: Pope Leo I allegedly meets personally with Attila the Hun and convinces him not to sack Rome 439: Vandals conquer Carthage At some point after 440, the Anglo-Saxons settle in Britain. ... This Buddhist stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century. ... // Overview Events The Roman-Persian Wars end. ...

• Jordanes publishes The Origin and Deeds of the Goths.
• The Byzantine Empire captures part of southern Spain from the Visigoths.
• Liang Yu Zhang Wang succeeds Liang Jian Wen Di as ruler of the Chinese Liang Dynasty.
• Beirut destroyed by earthquake and tsunami.

Births The Origin and Deeds of the Goths (Latin: De origine actibusque Getarum), commonly referred to as Getica, was written by Jordanes, probably in Constantinople, and was published in AD 551. ... Byzantine Empire (Greek: ) is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. ... The Visigoths, originally Tervingi, or Vesi (the noble ones), one of the two main branches of the Goths (of which the Ostrogothi were the other), were one of the loosely-termed Germanic peoples that disturbed the late Roman Empire. ... Liang Dynasty (also: Leung in Cantonese,) 梁朝 (502-557) was the third of Southern dynasties in China, followed by the Chen Dynasty. ... Central Beirut Beirut (Arabic: , Bayrūt) is the capital, largest city, and chief seaport of Lebanon. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earths surface. ... The tsunami that struck Malé in the Maldives on December 26, 2004. ...

Deaths

• Western Wei Wen Di, ruler of the Chinese Western Wei Dynasty