531

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Centuries:	5th century · 6th century · 7th century
Decades:	500s 510s 520s 530s 540s 550s 560s
Years:	528 529 530 531 532 533 534

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Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

531 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	531 DXXXI
Ab urbe condita	1284
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1313 – -1312
Berber calendar	1481
Buddhist calendar	1075
Burmese calendar	-107
Byzantine calendar	6039 – 6040
Chinese calendar	庚戌年十一月廿七日 (3167/3227-11-27) — to — 辛亥年十二月初八日 (3168/3228-12-8)
Coptic calendar	247 – 248
Ethiopian calendar	523 – 524
Hebrew calendar	4291 – 4292
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	586 – 587
- Shaka Samvat	453 – 454
- Kali Yuga	3632 – 3633
Holocene calendar	10531
Iranian calendar	91 BP – 90 BP
Islamic calendar	94 BH – 93 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2864
Thai solar calendar	1074
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[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Byzantine Empire

• April 19—Belisarius is defeated at the Battle of Callinicum; Mundus briefly takes command of the army.
• Some members of the Blue and Green chariot racing factions in Constantinople are imprisoned for murder, precipitating the Nika riots the next year.
• The building of St. Sophia Basilica, Constantinople, is begun, and is completed in 537.

[edit] Europe

• Theudis succeeds Amalaric as king of the Visigoths.
• The Franks and Saxons defeat the Kingdom of Thuringia.

[edit] Asia

• The reign of Chang Guang Wang, ruler of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty, ends.
• Khosrau I succeeds Kavadh I as king of Persia.

[edit] Births

• Yan Zhitui, Chinese scholar, official, calligrapher, painter, musician, writer, antiquarian, and Buddhist (d. 591)

[edit] Deaths

• Amalaric, king of the Visigoths (assassinated)
• Xiao Tong
• Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei