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Byzantine Empire
  • May 7 — In 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...
    , the dome of the Hagia Sophia
    Hagia Sophia

    Hagia Sophia is a former Patriarchate basilica, later a mosque, now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture....
     collapses. Justinian I
    Justinian I

    Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus , AD 482 or 483 ? 13 or 14 November 565, was the second member of the Justinian Dynasty and List of Roman Emperors from 527 until his death....
     orders the dome rebuilt.


Europe
  • Clotaire I
    Clotaire I

    Chlothar I , called the Old , King of the Franks, was one of the four sons of Clovis I. He was born about 497 in Soissons .On the death of his father in 511, he received, as his share of the kingdom, the town of Soissons, which he made his capital; the cities of Laon, Noyon, Cambrai, and Maastricht; and the lower course of the Meuse...
     reunites the Frankish kingdom.
  • Conall mac Comgaill
    Conall mac Comgaill

    Conall mac Comgaill was king of D?l Riata from about 558 until 574.He was a son of Comgall mac Domangairt. It is said that he gave Iona to Saint Columba....
     becomes king of Dál Riata
    Dál Riata

    D?l Riata was a Gaels overkingdom on the western seaboard of Scotland with some territory on the northern coasts of Ireland. In the late 6th and early 7th century it encompassed roughly what is now Argyll and Bute and Lochaber in Scotland and also County Antrim in Northern Ireland....
    .


Asia
  • The Guanghua Temple
    Guanghua Temple

    Guanghua Temple is Buddhist, built in Chen Dynasty in the Fujian province of China. Guanghua is 500 metres south of the cave....
     is built.


Births

  • Gao Yan
    Gao Yan (Northern Qi prince)

    Gao Yan , courtesy name Renwei , posthumously honored Emperor Gong'ai of Chu , was an imperial prince of the History of China dynasty Northern Qi....
  • Yu Shinan
    Yu Shinan

    Yu Shinan , courtesy name Boshi , was a master of calligraphy in early Tang Dynasty. He was also a paramount official, litterateur and well known confucian scholar in Emperor Taizong of Tang's era....


Deaths

  • Childebert I
    Childebert I

    Childebert I was the Frankish King of the Franks, a Merovingian dynast, one of the four sons of Clovis I who shared the kingdom of the Franks upon their father's death in 511....
    , king of the Franks
    Franks

    The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
  • Gabrán mac Domangairt
    Gabrán mac Domangairt

    Gabr?n mac Domangairt was king of D?l Riata in the middle of the 6th century. He is the eponymous ancestor of the Cen?l nGabra?n.The historical evidence for Gabr?n is limited to the notice of his death in the Irish annals....
    , king of Dál Riata
  • Empress Dugu
    Empress Dugu (Ming)

    Empress Dugu , formally Empress Jing , was an empress of the History of China/Xianbei dynasty Northern Zhou .She was the oldest daughter of Dugu Xin , a major general under Yuwen Tai, Yuwen Yu's father and paramount general of Western Wei....
  • Emperor Jing of Liang
    Emperor Jing of Liang

    Emperor Jing of Liang , personal name Xiao Fangzhi , courtesy name Huixiang , nickname Fazhen , was an emperor of the History of China Liang Dynasty....