533

Year 533 (DXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Iustinianus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1286 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 533 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Spring –
  Tripolis
  .
• March 25 – In a letter, Emperor Justinian I declares the Bishop of Rome (currently John) to be "head of all Bishops, and the true and effective corrector of heretics."
• Summer – Emperor Justinian I holds a war council in Constantinople. His advisers warn him against launching an expedition to North Africa, because of the supply-lines (1,000 miles into Vandal waters) and the huge drain on the imperial treasury. Justinian appoints Belisarius to command the Byzantine army.
• bucellarii).^[1] On the flagship Belisarius is accompanied by his military secretary Procopius, and his wife Antonina
  .
• September – Belisarius arrives at Sicily, which he uses as a staging area, with the permission of the Ostrogoth queen
  Amalasuntha, daughter of Theodoric the Great and regent of Italy. The Ostrogoths
  help him with supplies and the fleet is prepared for the final attack.
• September 9 – The Byzantine army lands at Caput Vada (modern Tunisia). Belisarius marches his army northwards, towards Carthage (over 140 miles), following the coast, accompanied by the fleet and shadowed by Gelimer. During the march, the Vandal towns fall without a fight.^[2]
• September 13 – Battle of Ad Decimum: Gelimer attempts to ambush the Byzantines in a defile at the "10th milestone" from Carthage; due to inadequate coordination and the alertness of Belisarius, the attack is repulsed and the Vandals are scattered into the desert. Belisarius enters the capital and orders his soldiers not to kill or enslave the population. The fleet is stationed in the Lake of Tunis.
• Berbers
  .
• Pandectae, a collection of jurist writings and other sources, is completed (see Corpus Juris Civilis
  ).

• Theudebert I succeeds his father Theuderic I and becomes king of Austrasia.

By topic

Religion

• January 2 – Pope John II becomes the 56th pope of Rome, and the first to adopt a regnal name upon elevation to the papacy (his birth name, Mercurius, being of pagan origin).

Births

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Deaths

• January 13 – Remigius, bishop of Reims
• Erzhu Zhao, general of Northern Wei
• Fulgentius of Ruspe, bishop (approximate date)
• Hilderic, king of the Vandals and Alans
• Theuderic I, king of Austrasia (or 534)
• Tzazo, brother of Gelimer (killed in battle)

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