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Byzantine Empire

• An earthquake
  Earthquake
  
  An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph....
   devastates Latakia
  Latakia
  
  Latakia or Latakiyah is the principal port city of Syria, capital of the Latakia Governorate. Its population is 554,000....
  .

Asia

• The Nan Liang Dynasty begins; the first ruler is Nan Liang Xuan Di.
• Chinese Liang Dynasty
  Liang Dynasty
  
  Liang Dynasty , also known as Southern Liang Dynasty , was the third of Southern dynasties in China, followed by the Chen Dynasty. Western Liang Dynasty , with its capital established at Jiangling in 555 by Emperor Xuan of Western Liang, a grandson of Liang's founder Emperor Wu of Liang, claimed to be the legitimate successor of...
  : Liang Yuan Di is succeeded by Liang Zheng Yang Hou, then Liang Jing Di.

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Arts and Sciences

• Taliesin
  Taliesin
  
  Taliesin , , was a Brythonic languages poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin....
   becomes court bard
  Bard
  
  In Celts society, a bard was a professional poet, paid by a monarch to praise the sovereign's activities.The term acquired generic meanings of an epic author/singer/narrator or any poets, especially famous ones....
   to King Brochfael
  Brochwel Ysgithrog
  
  Brochwel ap Cyngen , better known as Brochwel Ysgrithrog, was a king of Kingdom of Powys in Eastern Wales. The unusual nickname Ysgithrog has been translated as ?of the canine teeth?, ?the fanged? or ?of the tusk? ....
   of Powys
  Kingdom of Powys
  
    The Kingdom of Powys was a Wales successor state that emerged during the Dark Ages following the Roman withdrawal from Britain....
   (approximate date).
• Around this time, the historian Jordanes
  Jordanes
  
  Jordanes , was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat , who turned his hand to history later in life.Though he also wrote Romana , a book about the history of Rome, his most known work is his Getica, written in Constantinople about AD 551 ....
   writes several books, among them De origine actibusque Getarum (The origin and deeds of the Goths).

Deaths

• Pope Vigilius
  Pope Vigilius
  
  Pope Vigilius reigned as pope from 537-555. He belonged to a distinguished Roman family; his father Johannes is identified as a consul in the Liber pontificalis , having received that title from the emperor....
  
• Theodebald, 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....
  
• Wang Sengbian
  Wang Sengbian
  
  Wang Sengbian , courtesy name Juncai , was a general of the History of China dynasty Liang Dynasty. He came to prominence as the leading general under Emperor Yuan of Liang 's campaigns against the rebel general Hou Jing and other competitors for the Liang throne, and after Emperor Yuan was defeated by Western Wei in 554 and killed ar...
  
• Emperor Yuan of Liang
  Emperor Yuan of Liang
  
  Emperor Yuan of Liang , personal name Xiao Yi , courtesy name Shicheng , nickname Qifu , was an emperor of the History of China Liang Dynasty....