Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 541 A.D. through 550 A.D.
- 541 to 550
- Totila becomes, after the death of his uncle Hildebad,
king of the Ostrogoths (541 - 552)
- Totila enters Rome (546)
- Audoin founds the new Lombard dynasty and establishes
his reign beyond the Save River (546)
- King Ida accedes to the throne of Bernicia, the more
northerly of the two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (547)
- Totila leaves Rome (547)
- Theodora, Byzantine empress, d. 548 (b. 508)
- Totila conquers Rome for the second time (550)
- Westward migration of Turk. tribes (Avars) begins (550)
- The kingdoms of Mercia, East Anglia, and Northumbria
founded (550)
- Slav tribes settle in Mecklenburg (550)
- Poles settle in western, Ukrainians in eastern,
Galicia (550)
- Toltec kingdom in Mexico continues Teotihuacan
civilization (550)
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