526
This article is about the year 526. For the number, see 526 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 490s 500s 510s – 520s – 530s 540s 550s |
| Years: | 523 524 525 – 526 – 527 528 529 |
| 526 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 526 DXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1279 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5276 |
| Bengali calendar | −67 |
| Berber calendar | 1476 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1070 |
| Burmese calendar | −112 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6034–6035 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3222 or 3162 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3223 or 3163 |
| Coptic calendar | 242–243 |
| Discordian calendar | 1692 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 518–519 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4286–4287 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 582–583 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 448–449 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3627–3628 |
| Holocene calendar | 10526 |
| Iranian calendar | 96 BP – 95 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 99 BH – 98 BH |
| Julian calendar | 526 DXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 2859 |
| Minguo calendar | 1386 before ROC 民前1386年 |
| Seleucid era | 837/838 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1068–1069 |
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Pope Felix IV (526–530)
Year 526 (DXXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Olybrius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1279 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 526 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
Europe
- August 30 – King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.
- Amalasuntha rules the Ostrogothic Kingdom that extends throughout the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Illyricum (modern Dalmatia), Corsica and Sardinia.
- Amalaric, age 24, becomes king of the Visigoths and assumes full royal power.
Persia
- Roman–Persian Wars: King Kavad I, assisted by his Arabian vassal, Al-Mundhir III, begins a campaign in the Transcaucasus region and Upper Mesopotamia.
Middle East
- Probably between May 20 and May 29 – 526 Antioch earthquake: A first great earthquake kills approximately 250,000 people in Syria and Antioch.
By topic
Religion
- Pope John I returns to Ravenna from Constantinople. Theodoric the Great finds that he has been only partly successful in persuading the Byzantine emperor Justin I to withdraw his edict against Arian Christianity, and throws the pope into prison.
- May 18 – John I dies of starvation after a 3-year reign. Theodoric the Great selects Pope Felix IV as his successor and becomes the 54th pope.
- Ecclesius, bishop of Ravenna, commissions two new churches, one for Ravenna and one for its port, Classis.
- c. 526–547 – Sanctuary apse's mosaic showing Christ enthroned and flanked by Saint Vitalis and Ecclesius, Basilica of San Vitale (Ravenna) is made.
Births
- Wang Lin, general of the Liang Dynasty and Northern Wei (d. 573)
- Yuan Zhao ("the young lord"), emperor of Northern Wei (d. 528)
Deaths
- Euphrasius, patriarch of Antioch (approximate date)
- May 18 – Pope John I
- Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, Roman politician
- August 30 – Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths
References
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