540

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 5th century6th century7th century
Decades: 510s  520s  530s 540s 550s  560s  570s
Years: 537 538 539540541 542 543

Events

  • Emperor Kimmei, reign of 29th emperor of Japan starts (540-571)[1]
  • Vitiges of the Ostrogoths surrendered to the Byzantine army.[2]

Births

References

  1. McCullough, Helen Craig. (1966). Yoshitsune: a fifteenth-century Japanese chronicle, p. 322.
  2. Wolfram, Herwig. (1990). History of the Goths, p. 349.
  3. "Pope St. Gregory ('the Great')," Catholic Encyclopedia (2009); retrieved 2012-10-15.
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