533

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	500s  510s  520s  – 530s –  540s  550s  560s
Years:	530 531 532 – 533 – 534 535 536

533 was a common year.

Events

• January 2 – John II becomes Pope, succeeding Pope Boniface II, who had died in 532.
• Belisarius, a general in the service of Justinian I, lands in North Africa and attacks the Vandals.
• September 13 – Battle of Ad Decimium: Belisarius defeats the Vandals under Gelimer. Gelimer, forced to flee, leaves Carthage unprotected.
• December 15 – The Battle of Ticameron begins.
• December – Battle of Ticameron: Belisarius defeats a new Vandal force under Gelimer and Tzazo. Tzazo is killed in an all-cavalry fight, and Gelimer flees to the mountains of Numidia.
• December 16 – The Digesta or Pandectae, a collection of jurist writings and other sources, is completed (see Corpus Juris Civilis).
• Theodebert I becomes king of Austrasia.