Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 551 A.D. through 560 A.D.
- 551 to 560
- Ostrogoth navy defeated by the Byzantines (551)
- Totila, king of the Ostrogoths, killed at the Battle
of Taginae (552), fighting against the Byzantines under
Narses (c. 478 - c. 573)
- Teias, last king of the Ostrogoths (552 - 553)
- Narses annexes Rome and Naples for Byzantine (553)
- Narses, the eunuch general, appointed exarch, the
highest military and civil authority in Italy (554)
- Chlothar I, son of Clovis (see 511), reunites the
kingdom of the Franks (558 - 561)
- Belisarius repels an army of the Huns near
Constantinople (559)
- Ethelbert I, son of Eormenric, becomes king of
Kent (560 - 616)
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