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== Events == <onlyinclude> === By place === ==== Byzantine Empire ==== * [[Priscian]], [[Latin grammar]]ian, writes the ''Institutiones Grammaticae'' ("Grammatical Foundations"). In [[Constantinople]], he codifies this [[manuscript]] in 18 volumes, which will be widely used through the [[Middle Ages]]. It provides the raw material for the field of [[Modistae|speculative grammar]]. * [[July]] – Byzantine general [[Vitalian (consul)|Vitalian]] becomes [[Roman consul|consul]], and is shortly later murdered, probably on the orders of [[Justinian I|Justinian]], the nephew and heir-apparent of Emperor [[Justin I]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Cameron |first=Alan |title=The Death of Vitalian (520 A.D.) |journal=Zeitschrift fΓΌr Papyrologie und Epigraphik |volume=48 |year=1982 |pages=93β94 |location=Bonn |publisher=Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH |jstor=20183637}} The month of Vitalian's death is taken from the chronicle of [[Marcellinus Comes]], ''sub anno'' 520. Alan Cameron discussed the supporting evidence, concluding that Marcellinus is correct.</ref> ==== Britannia ==== * King [[Pabo Post Prydain]] of the [[Pennines]] ([[Northern England]]) abdicates his [[throne]], and divides the kingdom between his two sons. He retires, as a [[hermit]], to [[Anglesey]].<ref name="Small">{{cite book |last=Kinross |first=John |title=Discovering the Smallest Churches in Wales |publisher=The History Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7524-4101-6 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/discoveringsmall0000kinr/page/21 21β22] |chapter=Anglesey |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/discoveringsmall0000kinr/page/21}}</ref> * The [[Kingdom of East Anglia]] is formed, by the merging of the [[England|English]] counties of [[Norfolk]] and [[Suffolk]], and perhaps the eastern part of [[The Fens]] (approximate date). * King [[Budic II of Brittany|Budic II]] returns to [[Cornouaille]] ([[Brittany]]), to claim the Breton throne (approximate date). ==== Europe ==== * [[Ostrogoths|Ostrogothic]] ruler [[Theodoric the Great]] builds the [[Mausoleum of Theodoric]] as his future tomb in [[Ravenna]] ([[Italy]]).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bean |first1=Rachel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcYVmUyHG2AC |title=Italy, Malta, and San Marino |last2=Bruno |first2=Stefano |last3=Doe |first3=Helen |publisher=Marshall Cavendish |year=2010 |pages=753|isbn=978-0-7614-7893-5 }}</ref> ==== Asia ==== * [[Bodhidharma]], Buddhist [[Bhikkhu|monk]], arrives in [[Luoyang]]. He spreads [[Buddhism]] and travels to the [[Northern Wei dynasty|northern Chinese kingdom of Wei]], to the [[Shaolin Monastery]]. === By topic === ==== Religion ==== * [[February 25]] – [[Epiphanius of Constantinople|Epiphanius]] is elected [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|patriarch of Constantinople]] by Byzantine Emperor Justin I. * The construction of the [[Basilica of San Vitale]] in Ravenna, is started (approximate date). </onlyinclude> * The [[Monastery of Seridus|monastery]] of [[Seridus of Gaza|Seridus]], where [[Barsanuphius]] and [[John the Prophet]] lived as hermits, is founded in the region of [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]].<ref name="KofskyBitton">{{cite book |last1=Kofsky |first1=Arieh |last2=Bitton-Ashkelony |first2=Bruria |title=Christian Gaza in Late Antiquity |date=2004 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004138681 |pages=76β77 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lA9VwVwoyiAC |access-date=12 November 2023}}</ref>
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