535

Centuries:	5th century · 6th century · 7th century
Decades:	500s 510s 520s 530s 540s 550s 560s
Years:	532 533 534 535 536 537 538

535 by topic
Politics
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Births – Deaths
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Establishments – Disestablishments

Events

Justinian I orders Belisarius to start the reconquest of Italy; Mundus simultaneously invades Dalmatia.
31 December—Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Ostrogothic garrison of Syracuse, and ending his consulship for the year.

The Western Wei Dynasty begins in China; the first ruler is Wen Di.
Significant to the history of agriculture, the Chinese author Jia Sixia writes the treatise Chi Min Yao Shu in this year, and although it quotes 160 previous Chinese agronomy books, it is the oldest existent Chinese agriculture treatise. In over 100,000 written Chinese characters, the book covers land preparation, seeding, cultivation, orchard management, forestry, animal husbandry, trade, and culinary uses for crops.

Reports of the eruption of Krakatoa, which possibly lead to several years of climate change (see Climate changes of 535–536), are recorded in the Javanese Book of Kings.

The weather is reported to be unusually cold and dark in multiple parts of the world; see climate changes of 535–536.