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==== Europe ==== * [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]] becomes the capital of the [[Visigothic Kingdom]] that controls the [[Iberian Peninsula]]. King [[Theudis]] expands [[Visigoths|Visigoth]] rule in the southern regions ([[Hispania Baetica]]). * The [[Franks|Frankish]] kings [[Childebert I]] and [[Chlothar I]] overthrow [[Godomar]], king of the [[Burgundians]], and end the [[Kingdom of Burgundy]]. * [[Cynric of Wessex|Cynric]] becomes king of [[Wessex]] (according to the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]''). * [[October 2]] – King [[Athalaric]] dies of [[tuberculosis]], age 18, having dissipated his youth in drink and debauchery. His mother, [[Amalasuntha]], proposes to her cousin [[Theodahad]], the kingdom's largest [[Land tenure|landowner]] and her father's last male heir, that he share the [[throne]] with her but that he will be king of the [[Ostrogoths]] in name only. Theodahad has secret conversations with the Byzantine [[ambassador]], and promises to turn over [[Tuscany]] in exchange for a large sum of money, the rank of [[Senate|senator]], and permission to live at Constantinople. </onlyinclude>
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