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[edit] Byzantine Empire

• General Belisarius conquers Milan and the Ostrogothic capital Ravenna.
• The Sassanids attack Daraa and capture Antioch.
• The Huns and Bulgars raid Greece.

[edit] Europe

• Ostrogoth king Witiges is succeeded by Ildibad.
• High King Custennin ap Cado of Britain is deposed and returns to Dumnonia.

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[edit] Religion

• Pope Vigilius rejects Monophysitism in letters to Emperor Justinian I and Patriarch Mennas of Constantinople.
• The former Roman senator Cassiodorus establishes a monastery, the Vivarium, on his estate in Italy. He enlists highly educated and sophisticated men to copy both sacred and secular manuscripts, intending this to be their sole occupation (approximate date).
• Benedict of Nursia writes his monastic laws.

[edit] Births

• Pope Gregory I (approximate date)
• Galswintha, wife of Chilperic I
• Myrddin Wyllt, later wild man of the woods and possible source for Merlin (approximate date)

[edit] Deaths

• Dionysius Exiguus (approximate date)
• Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths
• Empress Yifu
• Empress Yujiulüaf:540

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