538
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| Centuries: | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |
| Decades: | 500s 510s 520s 530s 540s 550s 560s |
| Years: | 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 |
| 538 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 538 DXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1291 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1306 – -1305 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1082 |
| Chinese calendar | 3174/3234-11-15 (丁巳年十一月十五日) — to —
3175/3235-11-25(戊午年十一月廿五日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 530 – 531 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4298 – 4299 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 593 – 594 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 460 – 461 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3639 – 3640 |
| Holocene calendar | 10538 |
| Iranian calendar | 84 BP – 83 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 87 BH – 86 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1198 (皇紀1198年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 10538 |
| Julian calendar | 583 |
| Korean calendar | 2871 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1081 |
[edit] Events
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[edit] Europe
- March 12 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. The Pope now emerges as the leading ruler in the West for 1260 years.
“AD 538 [was] the year when the Ostrogoths collapsed. It was out of the smoking ruins of the western Roman Empire and after the overthrow of the three Arian kingdoms that the pope of Rome emerged as the most important single individual in the West, the head of a closely organized church with a carefully defined creed and with vast potential for political influence. Dozens of writers have pointed out that the real survivor of the ancient Roman Empire was the Church of Rome.” (E. G. McKenzie, Catholic Church, page 14)
1260 years ended in 1798...
“In 1798 he (Berthier) made his entrance into Rome, ABOLISHED THE PAPAL GOVERNAMENT and established a secular one.” The Encyclopedia Americana, 1941 edition.
- This theory of the 1260 years of the papacy is popular among Adventists, who often attempt to make a connection between the papacy and the prophecies concerning 1260 years recorded in the book of Daniel. The particular events listed for 538 AD bear careful scrutiny to see if they really happened, happened in 538, or point to what some might want to make them signify. So too for the events of 1798.
- Gabrán mac Domangairt becomes king of Dál Riata.
[edit] Asia
- End of the Kofun era and beginning of the Asuka period, the second part of the Yamato period in Japan.
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[edit] Religion
[edit] Births
- Emperor Bidatsu, emperor of Japan
- Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian
- Zhiyi, de facto founder of Tiantai Buddhism
