558
This page relates to the year 558 Calendrier Julien.
Events
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May 7th: The dome of the large church of Holy-Sophie crumbles, following the Earthquake of the previous year. The Byzantine Empereur Justinien orders the immediate rebuilding of the dome.
- December 13rd: Beginning of the reign of Clotaire Ier, king of the Frank (fine in 561).
- Clotaire Ier invades the Domnonée, in the north of the Armorique. The Breton chief Chonoo is killed.
- a new epidemic of Plague devastation the city of Constantinople.
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Embassy of the Avars in Constantinople, which are mentioned for the first time in Europe. Several contemporary authors confuse them with the Huns.
- Raid of Zabergan to the head of the “Bulgarian ” Danubian. It reaches the Thermopyles and the walls of Constantinople (558 - 559).
- the king of Perse destroys the kingdom of the Huns Hephtalites with the assistance of the Turks Oghouzes (558 - 563).
- Beginning of the reign of Ghebré-Meskel, king of Aksoum (558 - 584). The king d' Aksoum Caleb would have abdicated in favor of his Ghebré-Meskel son. He would have withdrawn himself in a monastery built by Pantaléon saint. Its successor supports during all his reign the companies carried out by the viceroy of the Yemen Abraha against Persians, the Jews and the Arabs.
Births in 558
Death in 558
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December 13rd: Childebert Ier, king de Paris (birth 497)
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