547
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This article is about the year 547. For the number (and other uses), see 547 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 510s 520s 530s – 540s – 550s 560s 570s |
| Years: | 544 545 546 – 547 – 548 549 550 |
| 547 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 547 DXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1300 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 5297 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1297–-1296 |
| Bengali calendar | -46 |
| Berber calendar | 1497 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1091 |
| Burmese calendar | -91 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6055–6056 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙寅年十一月廿四日 (3183/3243-11-24) — to —
丁卯年十二月初四日(3184/3244-12-4) |
| Coptic calendar | 263–264 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 539–540 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4307–4308 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 603–604 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 469–470 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3648–3649 |
| Holocene calendar | 10547 |
| Iranian calendar | 75 BP – 74 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 77 BH – 76 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2880 |
| Minguo calendar | 1365 before ROC 民前1365年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1090 |
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Year 547 (DXLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 547 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] Africa
- Battle of Marta - Tripolitanian Moors under Carcasan defeat Byzantines under John Troglita
[edit] Europe
- Ida founds the kingdom of Bernicia at Bamburgh (traditional date).
- Theodebald becomes king of Austrasia (or 548).
- Emperor Justinian and His Attendants, mosaic on north wall of the apse, Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, is made (approximate date).
- Empress Theodora and Her Attendants, mosaic on south wall of the apse, Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, is made (approximate date).
- The Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna is dedicated by Archbishop of Ravenna Maximianus of Ravenna.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Theodebert I, king of Austrasia (or 548)
- Tribonian, Byzantine lawyer and author of the Codex Justinianus.
- Maelgwn Gwynedd, king of Gwynedd (approximate date)
- Gao Huan
