536

Centuries: 5th century · 6th century · 7th century Decades: 500s 510s 520s 530s 540s 550s 560s Years: 533 534 535 536 537 538 539

536 by topic Politics State leaders – Sovereign states Birth and death categories Births – Deaths Establishment and disestablishment categories Establishments – Disestablishments 536 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 536 DXXXVI Ab urbe condita 1289 Armenian calendar N/A Bahá'í calendar -1308 – -1307 Bengali calendar -57 Berber calendar 1486 Buddhist calendar 1080 Burmese calendar -102 Byzantine calendar 6044 – 6045 Chinese calendar 乙卯年十一月廿三日 (3172/3232-11-23) — to — 丙辰年十二月初四日 (3173/3233-12-4) Coptic calendar 252 – 253 Ethiopian calendar 528 – 529 Hebrew calendar 4296 – 4297 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat 592 – 593  - Shaka Samvat 458 – 459  - Kali Yuga 3637 – 3638 Holocene calendar 10536 Iranian calendar 86 BP – 85 BP Islamic calendar 89 BH – 88 BH Japanese calendar Korean calendar 2869 Thai solar calendar 1079

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• April—Belisarius, a general in the service of Justinian I, lands in Italy
• Belisarius takes Naples.
• 9 December—Belisarius enters Rome.
• The St. Sophia Basilica in Constantinople (begun in 532) is completed.

Europe

• The Ostrogoths cede Provence and upper Alamannia to the Franks for gaining their support in the war against the Byzantines.
• Witiges succeeds Theodahad as ruler of the Ostrogoths.

By topic

• June 1 or June 8—Pope Silverius succeeds Pope Agapetus I.
• Synod of Constantinople: Bishops acknowledge the supremacy of the emperor in church matters.
• Anthimus is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople in favour of Mennas.
• And it came about during this year that a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during this whole year, and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear nor such as it is accustomed to shed. And from the time when this thing happened men were free neither from war nor pestilence nor any other thing leading to death. – Procopios^[1] See Extreme weather events of 535-536.

Births

• Agathias, Greek poet and historian
• Evagrius Scholasticus, church historian (or 537)
• Empress Dowager Li Ezi

Deaths

• April 22—Pope Agapetus I
• Theodahad, king of the Ostrogoths (assassinated)
• Mundus, Byzantine general (in battle in Dalmatia)

References