544
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| Centuries: | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |
| Decades: | 510s 520s 530s 540s 550s 560s 570s |
| Years: | 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 |
| 544 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 544 DXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1297 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1300 – -1299 |
| Berber calendar | 1494 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1088 |
| Burmese calendar | -94 |
| Chinese calendar | 3180/3240-11-21 (癸亥年十一月廿一日) — to —
3181/3241-12-2(甲子年十二月初二日) |
| Coptic calendar | 260 – 261 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 536 – 537 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4304 – 4305 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 599 – 600 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 466 – 467 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3645 – 3646 |
| Holocene calendar | 10544 |
| Iranian calendar | 78 BP – 77 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 80 BH – 79 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2877 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1087 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By Place
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- Belisarius is sent back to Italy to once more fight the Ostrogoths, who have been making reconquests in the area.
- Pope Vigilius is ordered to Constantinople.
- Khosrau I of Persia unsuccessfully attacks the Byzantine fortress of Daraa.
[edit] By Topic
[edit] Religion
- Jacob Baradaeus consecrates Sergius of Tella as Patriarch of Antioch. By this act, he creates a permanent schism between the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- King Wihtgar of the Isle of Wight
- October 18 — Saint Wenna
- Dionysius Exiguus, creator of the Anno Domini system of date measurement
