540

Events 
 Emperor Kimmei, reign of 29th emperor of Japan starts (540-571)McCullough, Helen Craig. (1966).  Yoshitsune: a fifteenth-century Japanese chronicle, p. 322.
 Vitiges of the Ostrogoths surrendered to the Byzantine army.Wolfram, Herwig. (1990).  History of the Goths,  p. 349.

Births
 Pope Gregory I (approximate date) "Pope St. Gregory ('the Great')," Catholic Encyclopedia (2009); retrieved 2012-10-15.

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