531

Year 531 (DXXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year after the Consulship of Lampadius and Probus (or, less frequently, year 1284 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 531 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:
531 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar531
DXXXI
Ab urbe condita1284
Assyrian calendar5281
Balinese saka calendar452–453
Bengali calendar−62
Berber calendar1481
Buddhist calendar1075
Burmese calendar−107
Byzantine calendar6039–6040
Chinese calendar庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
3227 or 3167
     to 
辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
3228 or 3168
Coptic calendar247–248
Discordian calendar1697
Ethiopian calendar523–524
Hebrew calendar4291–4292
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat587–588
 - Shaka Samvat452–453
 - Kali Yuga3631–3632
Holocene calendar10531
Iranian calendar91 BP – 90 BP
Islamic calendar94 BH – 93 BH
Javanese calendar418–419
Julian calendar531
DXXXI
Korean calendar2864
Minguo calendar1381 before ROC
民前1381年
Nanakshahi calendar−937
Seleucid era842/843 AG
Thai solar calendar1073–1074
Tibetan calendar阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
657 or 276 or −496
     to 
阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
658 or 277 or −495
King Khosrau I (531–579)

Events

Byzantine Empire

Europe

  • The Franks under King Chlothar I march against the Thuringii with Chlothar's nephew Theudebert I. The Kingdom of Thuringia comes under Frankish domination.
  • Hermanafrid, last king of the Thuringii, is defeated by the Franks near the Unstrut River. During negotiations he is pushed from the town walls of Zülpich.
  • King Childebert I receives pleas from his sister Clotilde, wife of King Amalaric, claiming that she is abused by her husband. Childebert invades Septimania (Gaul).
  • Childebert I defeats the Visigoths and conquers the capital Narbonne. Amalaric flees south to Barcelona, where he is assassinated by his own men.[1]
  • Clotilde returns with the Frankish army and dies on the journey home. She is buried in Paris alongside her father Clovis I.
  • Theudis, sword-bearer of former king Theodoric the Great, succeeds Amalaric as new ruler of the Visigoths.

Persia

  • King Kavadh I, age 82, dies after a 43-year reign. Khosrau I, his favourite son, is proclaimed successor over his elder brothers.

Asia

  • The reign of Chang Guang Wang, ruler of Northern Wei, ends. Gao Huan, Chinese general, begins a rebellion and declares another member of the imperial clan, An Ding Wang, emperor.
  • Ankan, age 66, succeeds his father Keitai as the 27th emperor of Japan.
  • Anwon becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.[2]

Unidentified

  • Major volcanic eruption.[3]

Births

  • Li Delin, Chinese official and writer (d. 591)
  • Liu Jingyan, Chinese Empress (d. 615)
  • Waldrada, Lombard princess (d. 572)
  • Yan Zhitui, Chinese scholar and official (d. 591)

Deaths

  • May 30 Xiao Tong, prince of the Liang Dynasty (b. 501)
  • Amalaric, king of the Visigoths (assassinated)
  • Clotilde, Visigoth queen and daughter of Clovis I
  • Drest IV, king of the Picts (approximate date)
  • Hermanafrid, king of the Thuringii (murdered)
  • Kavadh I, king of the Persian Empire (b. 449)
  • Keitai, emperor of Japan (b. 450)
  • Maine mac Cearbhall, king of Uí Maine (or 537)
  • Xiao Zhuang Di, emperor of Northern Wei (b. 507)

References

  1. Isidore of Seville, History of the Goths, chapter 40. Translation by Guido Donini and Gorden B. Ford, Isidore of Seville's History of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi, second revised edition (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), p. 19.
  2. "List of Rulers of Korea". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  3. Connor, Steve (July 7, 2014). "Our explosive past is written in the Antarctic ice". i. London. p. 17.
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