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Events 
January 11 – Nika riots in Constantinople; the cathedral is destroyed. They are put down a week later by Belisarius and Mundus; up to 30,000 people are killed in the Hippodrome.
Justinian I orders the building of a new cathedral – beginning of the construction of the Hagia Sophia.
Justinian  signs a peace treaty with the Sassanian shah Chosroes I.

 Births 
Áedán mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riata

 Deaths 
October 17 – Pope Boniface II