541

Year 541 (DXLI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Basilius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1294 Ab urbe condita). Basilius was the last person to be officially appointed Roman consul, since after this year, the office was permanently merged with the office of Roman/Byzantine emperor. Thus, from the next year forward, the consular year dating was abandoned. The denomination 541 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
541 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar541
DXLI
Ab urbe condita1294
Assyrian calendar5291
Balinese saka calendar462–463
Bengali calendar−52
Berber calendar1491
Buddhist calendar1085
Burmese calendar−97
Byzantine calendar6049–6050
Chinese calendar庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
3237 or 3177
     to 
辛酉年 (Metal Rooster)
3238 or 3178
Coptic calendar257–258
Discordian calendar1707
Ethiopian calendar533–534
Hebrew calendar4301–4302
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat597–598
 - Shaka Samvat462–463
 - Kali Yuga3641–3642
Holocene calendar10541
Iranian calendar81 BP – 80 BP
Islamic calendar84 BH – 83 BH
Javanese calendar428–429
Julian calendar541
DXLI
Korean calendar2874
Minguo calendar1371 before ROC
民前1371年
Nanakshahi calendar−927
Seleucid era852/853 AG
Thai solar calendar1083–1084
Tibetan calendar阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
667 or 286 or −486
     to 
阴金鸡年
(female Iron-Rooster)
668 or 287 or −485
Totila, king of the Ostrogoths (541–552)
The Lazic War (541–562)

Events

Byzantine Empire


Europe

  • Autumn Totila is elected king by the Ostrogothic nobles after the death of his uncle Ildibad. He wins the support of the lower classes by liberating slaves and distributing land to the peasants.
  • Winter Siege of Verona: Totila defends the city of Verona against a numerically superior Byzantine army. He gains control over the Po Valley and prepares a Gothic offensive in Central Italy.

Persia

  • Lazic War: King Khosrau I intervenes in Lazica (modern Georgia), and supports the weakened king Gubazes II against a full-scale uprising. He sends an expeditionary force under Mermeroes and captures the Byzantine stronghold of Petra, located on the coast of the Black Sea, which provides the Persians a strategic port.[1]

Asia

Religion

  • Jacob Baradaeus becomes bishop of Edessa (approximate date).

Births

Deaths

  • Adhurgunbadh, Persian general
  • John Tzibus, Byzantine governor-merchant in Lazica
  • Eraric, king of the Ostrogoths
  • Ildibad, king of the Ostrogoths

References

  • Bury, John Bagnall (1923). History of the Later Roman Empire.
  • Martindale, John Robert; Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin; Morris, J., eds. (1992). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume III: A.D. 527–641. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-20160-5.
  1. Frye Ancient Iran
  2. Bury 1923, pp. Volume 2, p. 57–58
  3. Martindale, Jones & Morris 1992, pp. 633, 815, 915
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