530 - Definition and Overview

Events

• September 22 - Pope Boniface II is elected to succeed Pope Felix IV
• December 15 - Justinian selects a second commission to excerpt and codify the writings of the jurists on Roman Law. This becomes the Digest.
• Tribonian becomes quaestor.
• Belisarius defeats the Sassanids at Dara.
• Hilderic, king of Vandals and Alans, deposed by his cousin Gelimer
• Northern Wei Chang Guang Wang succeeds Northern Wei Xiao Zhuang Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty

Births

Deaths

• September 22 - Pope Felix IV