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Tribonian was born in Pamphylia around the year 500. He became a successful lawyer in Constantinople, and was appointed by Justinian in 528 as one of the commissioners to prepare the new imperial legal code, the Corpus Juris Civilis, released in 529. In 530 he became quaestor, and the chief editor of the commentaries on the old Roman, which in total were much larger than the code itself. The brief version of the new code, the Digest or Pandects, containing the most relevant and useful parts of the code, was released in 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. While this was being completed the participants in the Nika riotsThe Nika riots or Nika revolt took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in 532. The ancient Roman and Byzantine Empires had well developed associations of sports fans, especially for chariot racing, a popular diversion for the poor. There wer of 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 for unknown reasons called for his removal. He was temporarily removed by Justinian until the riots were crushed. In 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 the full Codex Justinianus was released, along with a series of new laws created by Justinian to reflect contemporary needs (the Novellae). His life is recounted in the writings of ProcopiusThe writings of Procopius of Caesarea ( 500 ? 565 ?), in Palestine, are the primary source of information for the rule of the emperor Justinian. He was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought by the Justinian I, a panegyric on Justinian'.