544
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This article is about the year 544. For the number (and other uses), see 544 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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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 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5294 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1300–-1299 |
| Bengali calendar | -49 |
| Berber calendar | 1494 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1088 |
| Burmese calendar | -94 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6052–6053 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年十一月廿一日 (3180/3240-11-21) — to —
甲子年十二月初二日(3181/3241-12-2) |
| Coptic calendar | 260–261 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 536–537 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4304–4305 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 600–601 |
| - 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 |
| Minguo calendar | 1368 before ROC 民前1368年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1087 |
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Year 544 (DXLIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 544 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- Belisarius is sent back to Italy to once more fight the Ostrogoths.
- Pope Vigilius is ordered to Constantinople.
- Khosrau I of Persia unsuccessfully attacks the Byzantine fortress of Dara.
- Battle of Cillium in Africa, and death of Solomon
[edit] Southeast Asia
- Ly Bi establish the Kingdom of Van Xuan (Vietnam) and the Ly dynasty.
[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
- October 18 – Saint Wenna
- Dionysius Exiguus, creator of the Anno Domini system of date measurement
- Solomon, Byzantine general and governor of Africa
