Events

• 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 the building of a new cathedral - begin of the construction of the Hagia Sophia.
• Justinian I signs a peace treaty with the Sassanian shah Chosroes I.
• Franks invade the kingdom of Burgundy.
• Northern Wei Xiao Wu Di succeeds Northern Wei An Ding Wang in Northern China.
• Silla conquers Geumgwan Gaya in Korean peninsula.

Births

• Aedan, king of Dalriada (approximate date)

Deaths

• October 17 - Pope Boniface II