Years: 537 538 539 540 - 541 - 542 543 544 545

Decades: 510s 520s 530s - 540s - 550s 560s 570s

Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century

Events

• January 1 - Flavius Basilius Junior appointed as consul in Constantinople, the last person to hold this office
• January 2 - Earthquake strikes Laodicea.
• Plague appears in Egypt, spreading the following year to Constantinople.
• Totila becomes king of the Ostrogoths and drives the Byzantines out of Rome.
• Jacob Baradaeus becomes bishop of Edessa.
• John the Cappadocian is dismissed by Theodora for treason.
• The Uighurs come under the rule of the Hephthalites.

Births

Deaths

• Ildibad, king of the Ostrogoths