549

Year 549 (DXLIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 549 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.

549 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	549 DXLIX
Ab urbe condita	1302
Assyrian calendar	5299
Balinese saka calendar	470–471
Bengali calendar	−45 – −44
Berber calendar	1499
Buddhist calendar	1093
Burmese calendar	−89
Byzantine calendar	6057–6058
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3246 or 3039     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3247 or 3040
Coptic calendar	265–266
Discordian calendar	1715
Ethiopian calendar	541–542
Hebrew calendar	4309–4310
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	605–606
- Shaka Samvat	470–471
- Kali Yuga	3649–3650
Holocene calendar	10549
Iranian calendar	73 BP – 72 BP
Islamic calendar	75 BH – 74 BH
Javanese calendar	437–438
Julian calendar	549 DXLIX
Korean calendar	2882
Minguo calendar	1363 before ROC 民前1363年
Nanakshahi calendar	−919
Seleucid era	860/861 AG
Thai solar calendar	1091–1092
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 675 or 294 or −478     — to — ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 676 or 295 or −477

The Circus Maximus in Rome (1911)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under Totila besiege Rome for the third time, after Belisarius has returned to Constantinople. He offers a peace agreement, but this is rejected by Emperor Justinian I.
• Totila conquers the city of Perugia (Central Italy) and stations a Gothic garrison. He takes bishop Herculanus prisoner, and orders him to be completely flayed. The Ostrogoth soldier asked to perform this gruesome execution shows pity, and decapitates Herculanus before the skin on every part of his body is removed.^[1]
• In the Circus Maximus, first and largest circus in Rome, the last chariot races are held.^[2]

Europe

• January - Battle of Ciiil Conaire, Ireland: Ailill Inbanda and his brother are defeated and killed.^[3]
• Agila I succeeds Theudigisel as king of the Visigoths, after he is murdered by a group of conspirators during a banquet in Seville.^[4]

Persia

• Spring – Lazic War: The Byzantine army under Bessas combines forces with King Gubazes II, and defeats the Persians in Lazica (modern Georgia) in a surprise attack. The survivors retreat into Caucasian Iberia.^[5]
  • The Romans unsuccessfully besiege Petra, Lazica.

Asia

• Jianwen Di succeeds his father Wu Di as emperor of the Liang Dynasty (China).

By topic

Religion

• c. 549–564 – Transfiguration of Christ, mosaic in the apse, Church of the Virgin, Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt, is made.
• Fifth Council of Orléans: Nine archbishops and forty-one bishops pronounce an anathema against the errors of Nestorius and Eutyches.^[6]
• Bishop Maximianus of Ravenna consecrates the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe.
• The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory (which still exists) is founded in Ireland.

Births

• Abū Lahab, uncle and staunch critic of Muhammad (d. 624)
• Jizang, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 623)

Deaths

• January – Ailill Inbanda, king of Connacht (Ireland) (killed in battle)^[3]
• February 16 – Zhu Yi, official of the Liang dynasty (b. 483)
• December 12 – Finnian of Clonard, Irish monastic saint (b. 470)
• exact date unknown
  • Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish monastic saint^[7]
  • Gao Cheng, official and regent of Eastern Wei (b. 521)^[8]
  • Herculanus, bishop of Perugia^[9]
  • Theudigisel, king of the Visigoths (assassinated)^[10]
  • Túathal Máelgarb, king of Tara (Ireland)^[11]
  • Wu Di, emperor of the Liang dynasty (b. 464)^[12]
  • Xiao Zhengde, prince of the Liang dynasty^[13]
  • Xu Zhaopei, princess of the Liang dynasty^[14]