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Years: 530Events September 22 Pope Boniface II is elected to succeed Pope Felix IV December 15 Justinian selects a second commission to excerpt and codify the writings of the jurists on Roman Law. This becomes the Digest''. Tribonian becomes quaestor. Belisarius de 531Events End of the reign of Northern Wei Chang Guang Wang, ruler of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty. Khosrau I succeeds Kavadh I as king of Persia. Theudis succeeds Amalaric as king of the Visigoths. April 19 Belisarius is defeated at the Battle of Callin 532Events January 11 Nika riots in Constantinople; the cathedral is destroyed. January 18 Nika riots in Constantinople are put down by Belisarius and Mundus; maybe as many as 30 000 people are killed in the Hippodrome. Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders th 533Events February 1 John becomes Pope, succeeding Pope Boniface II, who had died in 532. Belisarius, a general in the service of Justinian I, lands in North Africa and attacks the Vandals. September Battle of Ad Decimium: Belisarius defeats the Vandals unde 534Events January 1 Decimus Theodorius Paulinus 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 General Belisarius after spending a miserable win 535Events Beginning of the Western Wei Dynasty in China. First ruler is Western Wei Wen Di. Pope John II (533-535) is succeeded by Pope Agapetus I. Justinian I orders Belisarius to start the reconquest of Italy; Mundus simultaneously invades Dalmatia. Weathe 536Events June 8 St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date). Belisarius, a general in the service of Justinian I, lands in Italy, takes Naples and Rome. The Franks invade Provence. Witiges succeeds Theodahad as ruler of the Ostrogoths. Synod of Constantinopl 537Events Pope Silverius deposed by Belisarius at the order of Justinian, who appoints as his successor Pope Vigilius. Battle of Camlann between Arthur and Mordred. traditional date) Construction of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is completed. Births Eva 538 539 540
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