533

533 (DXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 533rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 533rd year of the 1st millennium, the 33rd year of the 6th century, and the 4th year of the 530s decade. As of the start of 533, the Gregorian calendar was 2 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

533 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	533 DXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1286
Assyrian calendar	5283
Balinese saka calendar	454–455
Bengali calendar	−60
Berber calendar	1483
Buddhist calendar	1077
Burmese calendar	−105
Byzantine calendar	6041–6042
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 3229 or 3169     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3230 or 3170
Coptic calendar	249–250
Discordian calendar	1699
Ethiopian calendar	525–526
Hebrew calendar	4293–4294
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	589–590
- Shaka Samvat	454–455
- Kali Yuga	3633–3634
Holocene calendar	10533
Iranian calendar	89 BP – 88 BP
Islamic calendar	92 BH – 91 BH
Javanese calendar	420–421
Julian calendar	533 DXXXIII
Korean calendar	2866
Minguo calendar	1379 before ROC 民前1379年
Nanakshahi calendar	−935
Seleucid era	844/845 AG
Thai solar calendar	1075–1076
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 659 or 278 or −494     — to — ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 660 or 279 or −493

Events

• January 2 – John II becomes Pope, succeeding Pope Boniface II, who had died in 532.
• Belisarius, a general in the service of Justinian I, lands in North Africa and attacks the Vandals.
• September 13 – Battle of Ad Decimium: Belisarius defeats the Vandals under Gelimer. Gelimer, forced to flee, leaves Carthage unprotected.
• December 15 – The Battle of Ticameron begins.
• December – Battle of Ticameron: Belisarius defeats a new Vandal force under Gelimer and Tzazo. Tzazo is killed in an all-cavalry fight, and Gelimer flees to the mountains of Numidia.
• December 16 – The Digesta or Pandectae, a collection of jurist writings and other sources, is completed (see Corpus Juris Civilis).
• Theodebert I becomes king of Austrasia.