This page relates to the year 540 Calendrier Julien.

Events

The Middle East

• the king of Himyar (Yemen), Abraha, assembles a forwarding against the pagan sanctuary of Mecque.
• Khosro I {{er}}, the king of the Perses takes again the war with Justinien by invading the Syria; Antioche, its more important city, is put at bag.
• the metal-workers of Antioche are off-set in Persia.
• Occupation of the Lazique on the Black Sea by Persians.

Europe

• a Bulgarian large army devastates the Thrace and the Macedonia before reaching the walls of Constantinople.
• the Bulgares return on their premises charged with spoils.

• Vitigès, the king of the Ostrogoths is taken by Bélisaire which seizes Ravenne. The reconquest of the Italy in the South of the Po by Bélisaire seems complete. Bélisaire turns over to Constantinople while taking along Vitigès with him.
• Soulèvement of the Ostrogoths of the North of Italy led by their new king Ildibald who triumphs over the Roman army but is assassinated. Eraric, a Ruges, succeeds to him, negotiates with Justinien, offering to him to betray its army against the title of Patrice. It will be assassinated before to have been able to conclude its project (541).
• Justinien Ier installs the Lombards Audouin in Pannonia and uses them as mercenaries for the reconquest of Italy.
• Théodebert Ier occupies the coast Ligurie and does not venture in the Piedmont of 540 with 548. He dares to make strike currency with his effigy, prerogative exclusively Byzantine. He has as an ambition to create a kingdom of the the Danube and borders of Pannonia until the Atlantique.

• Ruin of Brittany , the British monk Holy Gildas (540-547). He testifies to the arrival of the Saxons ( adventus saxonum ).

Births in 540

• Gregoire, noble Roman of the family Anici. It will be Préfet of Rome, then monk and Pape and saint under the name of holy Gregoire Ier Large the.

Death in 540

• Arabia: the Imroulqays poet, crown prince évincé by the Lakhmides to the kingdom of Kinda.

Map-bms: 540