549

549 (DXLIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 549th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 549th year of the 1st millennium, the 49th year of the 6th century, and the 10th and last year of the 540s decade. As of the start of 549, the Gregorian calendar was 2 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

549 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	549 DXLIX
Ab urbe condita	1302
Assyrian calendar	5299
Balinese saka calendar	470–471
Bengali calendar	−44
Berber calendar	1499
Buddhist calendar	1093
Burmese calendar	−89
Byzantine calendar	6057–6058
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3245 or 3185     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3246 or 3186
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

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• The Ostrogoths under Totila recapture Rome.
• Last Circus Maximus chariot races in Rome.^[1]
• c. 549–564 – Transfiguration of Christ, mosaic in the apse, Church of the Virgin, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt, is made.

Europe

• Agila succeeds Theudigisel as king of the Visigoths.
• The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory (which still exists) is founded in Ireland.
• Archbishop Maximianus of Ravenna consecrates the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe.

Asia

• Emperor Jinwen succeeds Emperor Wu as ruler of the Liang Dynasty in China.

Births

• Jizang, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 623)

Deaths

• Theudigisel, king of the Visigoths
• Tuathal Maelgarb, King of Tara
• Gao Cheng
• Emperor Wu of Liang
• Xiao Zhengde
• Princess Xu Zhaopei
• Zhu Yi
• Chen Daoten father of Emperor Xuan of Chen (in either 548 or 549)