535

Year 535 (DXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Belisarius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1288 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 535 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:
535 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar535
DXXXV
Ab urbe condita1288
Assyrian calendar5285
Balinese saka calendar456–457
Bengali calendar−58
Berber calendar1485
Buddhist calendar1079
Burmese calendar−103
Byzantine calendar6043–6044
Chinese calendar甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
3231 or 3171
     to 
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
3232 or 3172
Coptic calendar251–252
Discordian calendar1701
Ethiopian calendar527–528
Hebrew calendar4295–4296
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat591–592
 - Shaka Samvat456–457
 - Kali Yuga3635–3636
Holocene calendar10535
Iranian calendar87 BP – 86 BP
Islamic calendar90 BH – 89 BH
Javanese calendar422–423
Julian calendar535
DXXXV
Korean calendar2868
Minguo calendar1377 before ROC
民前1377年
Nanakshahi calendar−933
Seleucid era846/847 AG
Thai solar calendar1077–1078
Tibetan calendar阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
661 or 280 or −492
     to 
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
662 or 281 or −491
The Gothic War: Belisarius subdues the Goths

Events

Europe

  • April 30 King Theodahad revenges himself upon Queen Amalasuintha. He has her taken from the capital of Ravenna to a small island on Lake Bolsena, where she is strangled in her bath.[1]
  • The death of Amalasuintha gives Byzantine Emperor Justinian I a pretext to invade Italy and begin the Gothic War.
  • The Byzantine city of Justiniana Prima is founded, and later becomes a bishop's seat of the Central Balkans.

Byzantine Empire

  • Gothic War: Emperor Justinian I appoints Belisarius commander-in-chief (stratēgos autokratōr), and sends a Byzantine expeditionary force of only 8,000 soldiers (half are heavy East Roman cavalry) to begin the reconquest of Italy.[2]
  • Summer Belisarius lands in Sicily and meets little opposition, save for the Gothic garrison of Palermo. Laying siege to the citadel, he blockades the harbour with his ships. Mundus invades Dalmatia and captures its capital, Salona.
  • Justinian I issues the Lex Julia and declares that a wife has no right to bring criminal charges of adultery against a husband. This makes divorce almost impossible in the Byzantine Empire.
  • December 31 Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.

Africa

  • Spring Solomon defeats the Moorish rebels at Mount Mammes and Mount Bourgaon. He secures Byzacena (modern Tunisia) and establishes fortifications along the Numidian border.
  • April Justinian I reorganises the province as an African prefecture, centered in Carthage. He restores frontier defences, and returns property to the Catholic Church.[3]

Asia

  • The Northern Wei Dynasty ends: The northern region of China is split into the Eastern Wei and the Western Wei during a civil war. The first ruler is Wen Di; he makes his son Fei Di crown prince.
  • Significant to the history of agriculture, Chinese author Jia Sixia writes the treatise "Chimin Yaoshu" in this year, and although it quotes 160 previous Chinese agronomy books, it is the oldest existent Chinese agriculture treatise. In over 100,000 written Chinese characters, the book covers land preparation, seeding, cultivation, orchard management, forestry, animal husbandry, trade, and culinary uses for crops.
  • Reports of the eruption of Krakatoa (Java), which possibly led to several years of climate change (see Extreme weather events of 535–536), are recorded in the Javanese Book of Kings.

Religion

Meteorology

  • The weather is reported to be unusually cold and dark in multiple parts of the world; see Extreme weather events of 535–536.

Births

  • Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib, uncle of the prophet Muhammad, father of Ali Ibn Abi Talib (d. 619)
  • Evagrius Scholasticus, Syrian scholar (approximate date)
  • Sigebert I, king of Austrasia (approximate date)
  • Theudebald, king of Austrasia (approximate date)
  • Xiao Zhao Di, emperor of Northern Qi (d. 561)

Deaths

References

  1. Jordanes, Vol. LIX, p. 51 and Herwig Wolfram (1998), p. 338
  2. J. Norwich, Byzantium: The Early Centuries, p. 215
  3. Rome at War (p. 55). Michael Whitby, 2002. ISBN 1-84176-359-4
  4. Breviarium S. Liberati, ap. Mansi, Concilia, Vol. IX, p. 695
  5. "John II | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
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