549
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| Gregorian calendar | 549 DXLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1302 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5299 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 470–471 |
| Bengali calendar | −44 |
| Berber calendar | 1499 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1093 |
| Burmese calendar | −89 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6057–6058 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3246 or 3039 — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3247 or 3040 |
| Coptic calendar | 265–266 |
| Discordian calendar | 1715 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 541–542 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4309–4310 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 605–606 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 470–471 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3649–3650 |
| Holocene calendar | 10549 |
| Iranian calendar | 73 BP – 72 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 75 BH – 74 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 437–438 |
| Julian calendar | 549 DXLIX |
| Korean calendar | 2882 |
| Minguo calendar | 1363 before ROC 民前1363年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −919 |
| Seleucid era | 860/861 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1091–1092 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 675 or 294 or −478 — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 676 or 295 or −477 |
Year 549 (DXLIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 549 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.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under Totila besiege Rome for the third time, after Belisarius has returned to Constantinople. He offers a peace agreement, but this is rejected by Emperor Justinian I.
- Totila conquers the city of Perugia (Central Italy) and stations a Gothic garrison. He takes bishop Herculanus prisoner, and orders him to be completely flayed. The Ostrogoth soldier asked to perform this gruesome execution shows pity, and decapitates Herculanus before the skin on every part of his body is removed.[1]
- In the Circus Maximus, first and largest circus in Rome, the last chariot races are held.[2]
Europe
- Agila I succeeds Theudigisel as king of the Visigoths, after he is murdered by a group of conspirators during a banquet in Seville.[3]
Persia
- Spring – Lazic War: The Byzantine army under Bessas combines forces with King Gubazes II, and defeats the Persians in Lazica (modern Georgia) in a surprise attack. The survivors retreat into Caucasian Iberia.[4]
Asia
- Jianwen Di succeeds his father Wu Di as emperor of the Liang Dynasty (China).
By topic
Religion
- c. 549–564 – Transfiguration of Christ, mosaic in the apse, Church of the Virgin, Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt, is made.
- Fifth Council of Orléans: Nine archbishops and forty-one bishops pronounce an anathema against the errors of Nestorius and Eutyches.[5]
- Bishop Maximianus of Ravenna consecrates the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe.
- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory (which still exists) is founded in Ireland.
Births
Deaths
- Ailill Inbanda, king of Connacht (Ireland)
- Chen Daoten, father of Xuan Di (or 548)
- Finnian of Clonard, Irish monastic saint (b. 470)
- Gao Cheng, official and regent of Eastern Wei (b. 521)
- Herculanus, bishop of Perugia
- Talorc II, king of the Picts
- Theudigisel, king of the Visigoths
- Túathal Máelgarb, king of Tara (Ireland)
- Wu Di, emperor of the Liang Dynasty (b. 464)
- Xiao Zhengde, prince of the Liang Dynasty
- Xu Zhaopei, princess of the Liang Dynasty
- February 16 – Zhu Yi, official of Liang Dynasty (b. 483)
References
- ^ Saint of the Day, November 7: Herculanus of Perugia at SaintPatrickDC.org
- ^ O'Donnell, James (2008). The Ruin of the Roman Empire. New York: HarperCollins. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-06-078737-0.
- ^ Isidore of Seville, Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum, chapter 44. Translation by Guido Donini and Gordon B. Ford, Isidore of Seville's History of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi, second revised edition (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970), p.21
- ^ Martindale et al.
- ^ Council of Orléans at the Catholic Encyclopedia