By place Byzantine Empire •
January 1 –
Decius Paulinus enters the office of
consul (the last to hold this office in the West). •
March – King
Gelimer surrenders to
Belisarius, after spending a winter in the mountains of
Numidia. He and large numbers of captured
Vandals are transported to
Constantinople. The
Vandal Kingdom ends, and the
African provinces return to the
Byzantine Empire. •
April – Belisarius leaves a small force in Africa under the Byzantine general
Solomon, to continue the subjugation of the province. He is appointed governor (
Exarch) and pacifies the
Moorish tribes with success.
Malta becomes a Byzantine province (until
870). • Summer – Belisarius arrives in Constantinople and is permitted by Emperor
Justinian I to celebrate a
triumph, the first non-imperial triumph for over 500 years. In the procession the spoils of the
Temple of Jerusalem and the Vandal treasure are paraded. • Justinian I commemorates the victory against the Vandals by stamping medals in his honor with the inscription
"Gloria Romanorum" (approximate date). •
November 16 – A second and final revision of the
Codex Justinianus is published.
Europe •
Toledo becomes the capital of the
Visigothic Kingdom that controls the
Iberian Peninsula. King
Theudis expands
Visigoth rule in the southern regions (
Hispania Baetica). • The
Frankish kings
Childebert I and
Chlothar I overthrow
Godomar, king of the
Burgundians, and end the
Kingdom of Burgundy. •
Cynric becomes king of
Wessex. •
October 2 – King
Athalaric dies of
tuberculosis, age 18, having dissipated his youth in drink and debauchery. His mother,
Amalasuntha, proposes to her cousin
Theodahad, the kingdom's largest
landowner and her father's last male heir, that he share the
throne with her but that he will be king of the
Ostrogoths in name only. Theodahad has secret conversations with the Byzantine
ambassador, and promises to turn over
Tuscany in exchange for a large sum of money, the rank of
senator, and permission to live at Constantinople. == Births ==