540s

Below are some of the important events that happened from 540 to 549.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 5th century6th century7th century
Decades: 510s 520s 530s540s550s 560s 570s
Years: 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549
Categories: BirthsDeathsArchitecture
EstablishmentsDisestablishments


540

Births

Deaths

541

542

543

544

  • Belisarius defeats the Gothic army under king Totila.
  • King Khosrau I unsuccessfully attacks the Byzantine city of Dara.
  • Ly Bi is made emperor and starts the empire Van Xuân (modern Vietnam).

545

546

547

548

549

References

  1. McCullough, Helen Craig. (1966). Yoshitsune: a fifteenth-century Japanese chronicle, p. 322.
  2. Wolfram, Herwig. (1990). History of the Goths, p. 349.