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Decades
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Events
Byzantine
general
Belisarius
conquers
Milan
and the
Ostrogoth
capital
Ravenna
.
Ostrogoth king
Witiges
is succeeded by
Ildibad
.
Pope Vigilius
in letters to Emperor
Justinian
and
Patriarch Mennas of Constantinople
rejects
Monophysitism
.
The
Sassanids
attack
Dara
and capture
Antioch
.
Births
Pope Gregory I
(approximate date)
Galswintha
, wife of
Chilperic I of Neustria
Myrddin Wyllt
, later wild man of the woods and possible source for
Merlin
(approximate date).
Deaths
Dionysius Exiguus
(approximate date)
Witiges
, king of the
Ostrogoths
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