526

Year 526 (DXXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Olybrius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1279 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 526 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.

526 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	526 DXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1279
Assyrian calendar	5276
Balinese saka calendar	447–448
Bengali calendar	−68 – −67
Berber calendar	1476
Buddhist calendar	1070
Burmese calendar	−112
Byzantine calendar	6034–6035
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3223 or 3016     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3224 or 3017
Coptic calendar	242–243
Discordian calendar	1692
Ethiopian calendar	518–519
Hebrew calendar	4286–4287
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	582–583
- Shaka Samvat	447–448
- Kali Yuga	3626–3627
Holocene calendar	10526
Iranian calendar	96 BP – 95 BP
Islamic calendar	99 BH – 98 BH
Javanese calendar	413–414
Julian calendar	526 DXXVI
Korean calendar	2859
Minguo calendar	1386 before ROC 民前1386年
Nanakshahi calendar	−942
Seleucid era	837/838 AG
Thai solar calendar	1068–1069
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 652 or 271 or −501     — to — མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 653 or 272 or −500

Pope Felix IV (526–530)

Events

By place

Europe

• August 30 – King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuintha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.
• Amalasuintha rules the Ostrogothic Kingdom that extends throughout the Italian Peninsula, Dalmatia, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica.
• Amalaric, age 24, becomes king of the Visigoths, and assumes full royal power.

Persia

• Roman–Persian Wars: King Kavad I, assisted by his Arabian vassal, Al-Mundhir III, begins a campaign in the Transcaucasus region and Upper Mesopotamia.

Middle East

• Probably between May 20 and May 29 – 526 Antioch earthquake: A great earthquake kills approximately 250,000 people in Syria and Antioch.

By topic

Religion

• Pope John I returns to Ravenna from Constantinople. Theodoric the Great finds that he has been only partly successful in persuading the Byzantine emperor Justin I to withdraw his edict against Arian Christianity,^[1] and throws the pope into prison.
• May 18 – John I dies of starvation after a 3-year reign. Theodoric the Great selects Pope Felix IV as the 54th pope.
• Ecclesius, bishop of Ravenna, commissions two new churches, one for Ravenna and one for its port, Classis.
• c. 526–547 – Sanctuary apse's mosaic showing Christ enthroned and flanked by Saint Vitalis and Ecclesius, Basilica of San Vitale (Ravenna) is made.

Births

• Wang Lin, general of the Liang Dynasty and Northern Wei (d. 573)
• Yuan Zhao ("the young lord"), emperor of Northern Wei (d. 528)

Deaths

• May 18 – Pope John I^[1]
• August 30 – Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths (b. 454)^[2]
• October 30 – Paul of Edessa, Syriac Orthodox bishop of Edessa
• Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, Roman politician