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543

Ireland- Birth of Saint Columbanus

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542

An outbreak of the plague kills at least 100,000 in Constantinople and perhaps two million or more in the rest of the Empire.

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541

Plague appears in Egypt, spreading the following year to Constantinople.

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540

General Belisarius conquers Milan and the Ostrogoth capital Ravenna.

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539

* Ravenna becomes an exarchate of the Byzantine Empire.
* November 29 - Antioch struck by an earthquake.

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538

Buddhism introduced formally into Japan (by some accounts)

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537

Death of King Arthur (of Britain)

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536

The Franks invade Provençe.

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535

Reports of the eruption of Krakatoa in the Javanese Book of Kings, possibly leading to several years of climate change. The weather is reported to be unusually cold and dark in 535-536.

Regards from Rosie
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534

Toledo becomes the capital of the Visigoths in Spain