541
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This article is about the year. For the number, see 541 (number).
| Centuries: | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |
| Decades: | 510s 520s 530s 540s 550s 560s 570s |
| Years: | 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 |
| 541 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 541 DXLI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1294 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1303 – -1302 |
| Bengali calendar | -52 |
| Berber calendar | 1491 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1085 |
| Burmese calendar | -97 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6049 – 6050 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年十一月十九日 (3177/3237-11-19) — to —
辛酉年十一月廿八日(3178/3238-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 257 – 258 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 533 – 534 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4301 – 4302 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 596 – 597 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 463 – 464 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3642 – 3643 |
| Holocene calendar | 10541 |
| Iranian calendar | 81 BP – 80 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 84 BH – 83 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2874 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1084 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- January 1—Anicius Faustus Albinus Basilius is appointed as consul in Constantinople, the last person to hold this office.
- The plague appears suddenly in the Egyptian port of Pelusium, spreading the following year to Constantinople as the "Justinianic plague." This was the beginning of a 200-year long pandemic that would castigate Europe, the Middle East, and northern Africa.
- John the Cappadocian is dismissed by Theodora for treason.
[edit] Europe
- Totila becomes king of the Ostrogoths.
[edit] Asia
- The Uyghurs come under the rule of the Hephthalites.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- Jacob Baradaeus becomes bishop of Edessa.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Ildibad, king of the Ostrogoths
