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Byzantine Empire

• June 21 - Belisarius
  Belisarius
  
  Flavius Belisarius is often described as one of the greatest generals of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Byzantine Emperor Justinian I's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Western Roman Empire, which had been lost just under a century previously....
   sails from Constantinople
  Constantinople
  
  Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
   to attack the Vandals
  Vandals
  
  The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century. The Goths Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals as well as with the Burgundians and the Franks under Clovis I....
   in North Africa
  North Africa
  
  North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa.Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Northern Africa includes the following seven countries or territories:...
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• September 13 — Battle of Ad Decimum
  Battle of Ad Decimum
  
  The Battle of Ad Decimum took place on September 13, 533 between the armies of the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, and the Eastern Roman Empire , under the command of general Belisarius....
  : Belisarius defeats the Vandals under Gelimer
  Gelimer
  
  Gelimer , King of the Vandals and Alans from 530 to 534, was the last ruler of the North Africa during the Classical Period Kingdom of the Vandals....
  . Gelimer, forced to flee, leaves Carthage
  Carthage
  
  Carthage refers both to an ancient city in present-day Tunisia, and a modern-day suburb of Tunis. The civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic or Carthaginian....
   unprotected.
• December 15 — The Battle of Tricamarum begins, and Belisarius defeats a new Vandal force under Gelimer and Tzazo
  Tzazo
  
  Tzazo was the brother to King Gelimer , the last Vandal ruler of the North Africa. Tzazo died on 15 December 533 during the Battle of Tricamarum, which finally brought to an end the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa....
  . Tzazo is killed in an all-cavalry fight, and Gelimer flees to the mountains of Numidia
  Numidia
  
  Numidia was an ancient Berber people kingdom in present-day Algeria and part of Tunisia that later alternated between being a Roman province and being a Roman client state, and is no longer in existence today....
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• December 16 — The Digesta or Pandectae, a collection of jurist writings and other sources, is completed (see Corpus Juris Civilis
  Corpus Juris Civilis
  
  The Corpus Juris Civilis is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, issued from 529 to 534 by order of Justinian I, Byzantine Emperors....
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Europe

• Theodebert I becomes king of Austrasia
  Austrasia
  
  Austrasia formed the north-eastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, comprising parts of the territory of present-day eastern France, western Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands....
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Religion

• January 2 — Pope John II
  Pope John II
  
  Pope John II was pope from 533 to 535.He was the son of a certain Projectus, born in Rome and a priest of the Basilica di San Clemente on the Caelian Hill....
   succeeds Pope Boniface II
  Pope Boniface II
  
  Pope Boniface II was pope from 530 to 532.He was by birth an Ostrogoths, the first Germanic peoples pope, and he owed his appointment to the influence of the Gothic king Athalaric....
  , who had died in 532
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  Pope
  
  The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and head of state of Vatican City. The current pope is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected April 19, 2005 in Papal conclave, 2005....
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Births

Deaths

• January 13 — Saint Remigius
  Saint Remigius
  
  Saint Remigius , was Bishop of Reims and Apostle of the Franks, . On 24 December 496 he baptism Clovis I, List of Frankish monarchs. This baptism, leading to the conversion of the entire Frankish people to Nicene Christianity, was a momentous success for the Roman Catholic Church and a seminal event in European history....
  , bishop of Reims, baptiser of Clovis I
  Clovis I
  
  Clovis was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Franks under one king. He succeeded his father Childeric I in 481 as King of the Salian Franks, one of the Frankish tribes who were then occupying the area west of the lower Rhine, with their centre around Tournai and Cambrai along the modern frontier between France and Belgium, in an...
  
• Erzhu Zhao
  Erzhu Zhao
  
  Erzhu Zhao , courtesy name Wanren , was a general of the History of China/Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei. He was ethnically Xiongnu and a nephew of the paramount general Erzhu Rong....
  
• Theuderic I of Austrasia
  Austrasia
  
  Austrasia formed the north-eastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, comprising parts of the territory of present-day eastern France, western Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands....
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