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Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

February 13 - Justinian appoints a commission (including the jurist Tribonian) to codify all imperial laws that were still in force from Hadrian to the current date. (This becomes the Corpus Juris Civilis.)
Natural disaster: An earthquake strikes Antioch, killing thousands, and causing a fire that destroyed the Great Church built by Constantine the Great.

Asia

Xiao Zhuang Di succeeds Xiao Ming Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty
Yasodharman of Malwa defeats the Hun invaders in India.

By Topic

Religion

King Seong of Baekje adopts Buddhism as the state religion.
Bulguksa, a Buddhist temple, is built in Korea.

Births

Deaths

Euphrosius, Patriarch of Antioch (killed in the earthquake)
Procopius of Gaza, Christian sophist and rhetorician
Bodhidharma, Indian monk (approximate date)

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