552

Year 552 (DLII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 552 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
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552 by topic
Leaders
  • Political entities
  • State leaders
  • Religious leaders
Categories
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
552 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar552
DLII
Ab urbe condita1305
Armenian calendar1
ԹՎ Ա
Assyrian calendar5302
Balinese saka calendar473–474
Bengali calendar−41
Berber calendar1502
Buddhist calendar1096
Burmese calendar−86
Byzantine calendar6060–6061
Chinese calendar辛未年 (Metal Goat)
3248 or 3188
    — to —
壬申年 (Water Monkey)
3249 or 3189
Coptic calendar268–269
Discordian calendar1718
Ethiopian calendar544–545
Hebrew calendar4312–4313
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat608–609
 - Shaka Samvat473–474
 - Kali Yuga3652–3653
Holocene calendar10552
Iranian calendar70 BP – 69 BP
Islamic calendar72 BH – 71 BH
Javanese calendar440–441
Julian calendar552
DLII
Korean calendar2885
Minguo calendar1360 before ROC
民前1360年
Nanakshahi calendar−916
Seleucid era863/864 AG
Thai solar calendar1094–1095
Tibetan calendar阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
678 or 297 or −475
    — to —
阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
679 or 298 or −474
Emperor Justinian I receives the silkworms

Events

Byzantine Empire
  • July 1 – Battle of Taginae: Narses crosses the Apennines with a Byzantine army (25,000 men). He is blocked by a Gothic force under king Totila near Taginae (Central Italy). In a narrow mountain valley, Narses deploys his army in a "crescent shaped" formation.[1] He dismounts his Lombard and Heruli cavalry mercenaries, placing them as a phalanx in the centre. On his left flank he sends out a mixed force of foot and horse archers to seize a dominant height. The Goths open the battle with a determined cavalry charge. Halted by enfilading fire from both sides, the attackers are thrown back in confusion on the infantry behind them. The Byzantine cataphracts (Clibanarii) sweep into the milling mass. More than 6,000 Goths, including Totila, are killed. The remnants flee, and Narses proceeds to Rome, where he captures the city after a brief siege.
  • Emperor Justinian I dispatches a small Byzantine force (2,000 men) under Liberius to Hispania, according to the historian Jordanes. He conquers Cartagena and other cities on the southeastern coast.[2]
  • Justinian I receives the first silkworm eggs from two Nestorian monks at Constantinople. They were sent to Central Asia (see 550) and smuggled the precious eggs from China hidden in rods of bamboo.

Europe
  • Battle of Asfeld: The Lombards under King Audoin defeat the Gepids.
  • Cynric, king of Wessex, captures the fortress city of Old Sarum.[3]
  • The Roman Catholic Diocese of Meath is established in Ireland.
  • Teia becomes the last king of the Ostrogoths in Italy.

Asia
  • July 11 – First year of the Armenian calendar.
  • Yuan Di succeeds Xiao Dong as emperor of the Liang dynasty.
  • Bumin Qaghan dies; the new khagan is Issik Qaghan of the Turkic Empire.
  • Approximate date – Buddhism in Japan is introduced.

Religion

Births
  • Æthelberht, king (bretwalda) of Kent (approximate date)
  • John the Merciful, patriarch of Alexandria (approximate date)

Deaths

References
  1. Rance, Philip. "Narses and the Battle of Taginae (Busta Gallorum)". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte Vol. 54, No. 4 (2005), p. 424
  2. Getica, p. 303
  3. Leeds, E.T. (1954). "The Growth of Wessex". Oxoniensia. Oxford Architectural and Historical Society. LIX: 55–56. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
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