534 - Definition and Overview

Events

• January 1 - Decimus Theodorius Paulinus appointed consul, the last to hold this office in the West.
• November 16 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
• Gelimer surrenders to General Belisarius after spending a miserable winter in the mountains of Numidia. The Vandal Kingdom of North Africa ends, and the provinces return to Byzantine rule under Justinian I.
• Toledo becomes the capital of the Visigoths in Spain
• Lothar and Childebert overthrow Godomar, king of the Burgundians, and end the Kingdom of Burgundy.
• Cynric becomes the King of Wessex.
• Theodahad becomes king of the Ostrogoths.

Births

• Taliesin, Welsh poet (approximate date).

Deaths

• October 2 - Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths
• Anthemius of Tralles (approximate date)
• Cerdic, first king of West Saxons
• Theuderic I of Austrasia (or 533)