Justinian

Names:

• 482: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius
• April 527: made co-ruler by Justin
• 1 August  527: Flavius Justinianus
• 14 November 565: natural death

Relatives:

• married to: Theodora, daughter of Acacius

Main deeds:

• 482 Born in Vederiana
• 525 Marries Theodora
• 526 War breaks out with the Sasanian Empire (Iberian War)
• 527 Succeeds Justin I
• 528 Consul II
• 529 Academy of Athens closed
• 529 Harith, leader of the Ghassanids, recognized as "king of all Arabs", patricius, and responsible for Rome's eastern frontier
• 530 Belisarius defeats the Persians near Dara
• 531 In the Sasanian Empire, king Kavad I is replaced by Khusrau I 'deathless soul'; Belisarius defeated near Callinicus
• 532, January: Nika Riots (more...)
• 532, September: "Eternal peace" with Persia, end of Iberian War
• 533 Consul III; codification of Roman law (Institutiones, Digestae) completed; Belisarius leaves for Africa
• 534 Consul IV (with Flavius Decius Paulinus); Belisarius conquers Africa (15 September: enters Carthage)
• 535 Belisarius occupies Sicily; sent to Italy
• 536 Belisarius takes Napels and Rome
• 537 Closure of pagan sanctuaries in Philae
• 537, 26 December: Inauguration of the Hagia Sophia
• 537-538 Ostrogoths lay siege to Rome
• 539 Ananeosis; Founding of Theodorias
• 540 Belisarius takes Ravenna; Persians sack Antioch
• 541 Fall of John the Cappadocian
• 544 Belisarius again in Italy
• 548 Death of Theodora
• 549 Belisarius replaced by Narses
• 551 Justinian intervenes in Andalusia; an earthquake destroys Berytus
  
• 552 Narses conquers Italy
• 553, 5 May: Fifth Ecumenical Council in the Hagia Sophia; condemnation of the "three chapters"
• 554 Settlement of Italy
• 558 Collapse of the First Hagia Sophia
• 559 Invasion of the Huns; Belisarius repels them from the walls of Constantinople
• 562 Belisarius in disfavor
• 563 Belisarius restored; inauguration of the second Hagia Sophia
• 565 Death of Belisarius; John Scholasticus (John Malalas) made patriarch of Constantinople; death of Justinian

Buildings in Constantinople:

• Hagia Sophia (architects: Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus)
• SS. Sergius and Bacchus;
• Column of Justinian on Augusteôn Square;
• A church dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Myra;
• Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarayı).

Elsewhere:

• Bridge at Adana.
• The city of Theodorias.

Contemporary events:

• 536 Pope Sylvester forced to abdicate
• 536 A tropical volcano explodes and causes a decrease in temperature that lasts fifteen years
• 540 Rule of Benedict
• 542 Plague
• 550/551 Procopius publishes the History of the Wars
• 554 Procopius publishes the Buildings
• 554 Death of Procopius
• 557 Earthquake
• 563 Foundation of Jona
• 565 Publication of Procopius' Secret History