548

548 (DXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 548th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 548th year of the 1st millennium, the 48th year of the 6th century, and the 9th year of the 540s decade. As of the start of 548, the Gregorian calendar was 2 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

548 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	548 DXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1301
Assyrian calendar	5298
Balinese saka calendar	469–470
Bengali calendar	−45
Berber calendar	1498
Buddhist calendar	1092
Burmese calendar	−90
Byzantine calendar	6056–6057
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3244 or 3184     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3245 or 3185
Coptic calendar	264–265
Discordian calendar	1714
Ethiopian calendar	540–541
Hebrew calendar	4308–4309
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	604–605
- Shaka Samvat	469–470
- Kali Yuga	3648–3649
Holocene calendar	10548
Iranian calendar	74 BP – 73 BP
Islamic calendar	76 BH – 75 BH
Javanese calendar	436–437
Julian calendar	548 DXLVIII
Korean calendar	2881
Minguo calendar	1364 before ROC 民前1364年
Nanakshahi calendar	−920
Seleucid era	859/860 AG
Thai solar calendar	1090–1091
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 674 or 293 or −479     — to — ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 675 or 294 or −478

Events

• Emperor Justinian I removes Belisarius from military service.
• Theudigisel names himself ruler over the Visigothic Kingdom.

By place

Africa

• Battle of the Fields of Cato - Byzantines under John Troglita crush Moorish revolt

Births

• Xiao Zhuang

Deaths

• June 28 – Theodora, Byzantine empress
• Carcasan, king of the Ifuraces
• Theudis king of the Visigoths
• Theodebert I, king of Austrasia (or 547)
• Chen Daoten father of Emperor_Xuan_of_Chen (in either 548 or 549