530

events

19. May: The approximation of the Vandalenkönig Hilderichs to the eastRoman realm leads to its fallby „the national party “under Gelimer, which becomes new king. Justinian I. refuses to the new government the acknowledgment and takes the revolution a little later to the cause for an invasion
22. September: Bonifatius II., in Rome of born Gote,becomes Pope. The majority of the Roman Klerus selects Dioskur to the Gegenpapst, which however already dies after 22 days. Since Bonifatius thereupon forces the supporters of its opponent to admit to their „error “Dioskur traditionally to (illegitimate) the Gegenpäpsten counted
in the battlewith Dara eastRoman troops under Belisar a crucial victory succeed over the Sassaniden
legend-clung sea voyage of the holy Brendan
Godomar II., King of the Burgunder, allies itself with Amalasuntha, Regentin of the Ostgoten, to the protection against Franconias
Konstantinopelhas approx. 500,000 inhabitants, Rome approx. 100.000 (in the Middle Ages then only 20,000)
around 530: The Saxonia reach in the course of their expansion to the south the Rhine
around 530: Dear Pontificalis develops