[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Byzantine Empire

• April 19—Belisarius is defeated at the Battle of Callinicum; Mundus briefly takes command of the army.
• Some members of the Blue and Green chariot racing factions in Constantinople are imprisoned for murder, precipitating the Nika riots the next year.
• The building of St. Sophia Basilica, Constantinople, is begun, and is completed in 537.

[edit] Europe

• Theudis succeeds Amalaric as king of the Visigoths.
• The Franks and Saxons defeat the Kingdom of Thuringia.

[edit] Asia

• The reign of Chang Guang Wang, ruler of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty, ends.
• Khosrau I succeeds Kavadh I as king of Persia.

[edit] Births

• Yan Zhitui, Chinese scholar, official, calligrapher, painter, musician, writer, antiquarian, and Buddhist (d. 591)

[edit] Deaths

• Amalaric, king of the Visigoths (assassinated)
• Xiao Tong
• Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei