Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 531 A.D. through 540 A.D.
- 531 to 540
- Chosroes I becomes king of Persia (531 - 579) and leads his
country to new cultural and artistic heights
- Kingdom of Thuringia overthrown by Franks (531)
- Byzantine general Belisarius (505 - 565), who defeated the
Persians at Dara and was defated by them, recalled to
Constantinople (531)
- The Franks overthrow the kingdom og Burgundy (532)
- Belisarius saves the throne for Justinian by putting down
the Nika revolt (532)
- Constantinople destroyed during the Nika revolt, but soon
rebuilt (532)
- Belisarius overthrows Vandal kingdom and makes N. Africa
a Byzantine province (532)
- Toledo becomes capital of the Visigoth kingdom of Spain
(534 - 711)
- Malta becomes a Byzantine province (534 - 870)
- Belisarius occupies Ostrogoth kingdom of Italy (534 - 540)
- After the destruction of the Ostrogoth kingdom Provence
becomes part of the kingdom of the Franks (536)
- Arthur, king of the Britons, killed in the Battle of
Camlan; semilegendary (537)
- War breaks out between Persia and the Byzantine Empire
(539 - 562)
- Totila the Ostrogoth ends Byzantine rule in Italy (540)
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