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 | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 538 DXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1291 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1306 – -1305 |
| Berber calendar | 1488 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1082 |
| Burmese calendar | -100 |
| 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) |
| Coptic calendar | 254 – 255 |
| 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 | |
| Korean calendar | 2871 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1081 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By Place
[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 last Arian power in the West is thus defeated, leaving Western Christendom completely under the rule of the Pope.
- Gabrán mac Domangairt becomes king of Dál Riata.
[edit] Asia
- The Kofun era ends and the Asuka period, the second part of the Yamato period in Japan, begins.
[edit] By Topic
[edit] Religion
[edit] Births
- Emperor Bidatsu, emperor of Japan
- Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (d. 594)
- Zhiyi, de facto founder of Tiantai Buddhism
[edit] Deaths
- February 8 — Saint Severinus of Antioch, patriarch of Antioch
- Comgall mac Domangairt, King of Dál Riata
