534

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Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

* January 1 — Decimus Theodorius Paulinus is appointed consul (the last to hold this office in the West).
* November 16 — A second and final revision of the "Codex Justinianus" is published.
* Gelimer surrenders to Byzantine general Belisarius, after spending a miserable winter in the mountains of Numidia. The Vandal kingdom of North Africa ends, and the provinces return to the Byzantine Empire.
* Malta becomes a Byzantine province (until 870).

Europe

* Toledo becomes the capital of the Visigoths in Spain.
* The Frankish kings Cothar I and Childebert I overthrow Godomar, king of the Burgundians, and end the Kingdom of Burgundy.
* Cynric becomes the King of Wessex.
* Theodahad becomes king of the Ostrogoths.

Births

* Taliesin, Welsh poet (approximate date)
* Empress Liu Jingyan
* Emperor Ming of Northern Zhou

Deaths

* October 2 — Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths
* Anthemius of Tralles, mathematician and architect (approximate date)
* Cerdic, first king of West Saxons
* Theuderic I of Austrasia (or 533)