529

This article is about the year 529. For the United States education savings plan, see 529 plan. For the United States savings plan for disabled individuals, sometimes called a 529A plan, see ABLE account.

Year 529 (DXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Decius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1282 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 529 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

529 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	529 DXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1282
Assyrian calendar	5279
Balinese saka calendar	450–451
Bengali calendar	−65 – −64
Berber calendar	1479
Buddhist calendar	1073
Burmese calendar	−109
Byzantine calendar	6037–6038
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3226 or 3019     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3227 or 3020
Coptic calendar	245–246
Discordian calendar	1695
Ethiopian calendar	521–522
Hebrew calendar	4289–4290
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	585–586
- Shaka Samvat	450–451
- Kali Yuga	3629–3630
Holocene calendar	10529
Iranian calendar	93 BP – 92 BP
Islamic calendar	96 BH – 95 BH
Javanese calendar	416–417
Julian calendar	529 DXXIX
Korean calendar	2862
Minguo calendar	1383 before ROC 民前1383年
Nanakshahi calendar	−939
Seleucid era	840/841 AG
Thai solar calendar	1071–1072
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Monkey) 655 or 274 or −498     — to — ས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Bird) 656 or 275 or −497

Benedict of Nursia by Fra Angelico (Florence)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• April 7 – Emperor Justinian I issues the Codex Justinianus (Code of Civil Laws), reformulating Roman law in an effort to control his unruly people (see 532).^[1]
• The Samaritans revolt and are defeated; the Church of the Nativity is burnt down during the Rebellion.^[2]

Europe

• Queen Amalasuntha receives a delegation sent by a council of Gothic nobles urging that she have her son Athalaric, now 13, taught an education in the Roman tradition—not by elderly schoolmasters, but by men who will teach him to "ride, fence, and to be toughened, not to be turned into a bookworm".^[3]

Arabia

• Al-Harith ibn Jabalah becomes the fifth king of the Ghassanids. He helps the Byzantines to suppress the wide-scale Samaritan Revolt.^[4]

Central America

• February 25 – Kʼan Joy Chitam I becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque what is now the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, ending an interregnum of a little over four years, and reigns until his death in 565.^[5]

Southeast Asia

• Rudravarman is granted investiture by China, as the first king of the fourth dynasty of Champa (modern Vietnam).^[6]

By topic

Education

• The Academy, originally founded at Athens by Plato around 387 BC, closes down by order of Justinian I, on charges of un-Christian activity. Many of the school's professors emigrate to Persia and Syria.^[7]

Religion

• The Benedictine Order is established at Monte Cassino near Naples by Benedict of Nursia, who founds a monastery and formulates for his monks strict rules in the "Regula Benedicti".^[8]
• The Canons of the Council of Orange are established, approving the Augustinian doctrine of sin and grace over Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism, but without Augustine's absolute predestination.^[9]

Births

• Wen Xuan Di, emperor of Northern Qi (d. 559)^[10]

Deaths

• Baderic, king of the Thuringii (b. c. 480)^[11]
• Theodosius the Cenobiarch, monk and founder of the Monastery of St. Theodosius^[12]
• Yuan Hao, imperial prince of Northern Wei^[13]