554
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| Centuries: | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |
| Decades: | 520s 530s 540s 550s 560s 570s 580s |
| Years: | 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 |
| 554 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 554 DLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1307 |
| Armenian calendar | 3 ԹՎ Գ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1290 – -1289 |
| Berber calendar | 1504 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1098 |
| Burmese calendar | -84 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6062 – 6063 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸酉年閏十一月十二日 (3190/3250-intercalary 11-12) — to —
甲戌年十一月廿二日(3191/3251-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 270 – 271 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 546 – 547 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4314 – 4315 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 609 – 610 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 476 – 477 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3655 – 3656 |
| Holocene calendar | 10554 |
| Iranian calendar | 68 BP – 67 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 70 BH – 69 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2887 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1097 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By Place
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- General Narses reconquers all of Italy.
- Byzantine forces seize Granada and Andalusia from the Visigoths.
[edit] Europe
- Athanagild succeeds Agila as king of the Visigoths.
- The Ostrogoths are evicted from Rome, and Italy is reunified under Byzantine Imperial rule. [1]
[edit] Asia
- Gong Di succeeds Fei Di as ruler of the Chinese Western Wei Dynasty.
- Jiangling is captured; 100,000 inhabitants are enslaved and distributed to generals and officials.
- Baekje and Gaya ally and wage war upon Silla in the Korean peninsula, but are defeated.
- The second and larger of the two Buddhas of Bamyan is erected in central Afghanistan.[2]
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.
- ^ Cohen, Roger. "Return to Bamiyan", The New York Times, October 29, 2007. Accessed October 29, 2007.
