529

By place

Byzantine Empire

• April 7 - Emperor Justinian I issues the Codex Justinianus, reformulating Roman law in an effort to control his unruly people.
• The Samaritans revolt and are defeated; the Church of the Nativity is burnt down during the Rebellion.

Europe

• Queen Amalasuntha receives a delegation sent by a council of Gothic nobles urging that she have her son Athalaric, now 13, taught an education in the Roman tradition—not by elderly schoolmasters, but by men who will teach him to "ride, fence, and to be toughened, not to be turned into a bookworm".

Arabia

• Al-Harith [ibn Jabalah] becomes the fifth king of the Ghassanids. He helps the Byzantines to suppress the wide-scale Samaritan Revolt.

Central America

• February 25 - Kʼan Joy Chitam I becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque what is now the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, ending an interregnum of a little over four years, and reigns until his death in 565.

Southeast Asia

• Rudravarman is granted investiture by China, as the first king of the fourth dynasty of Champa.

By topic

Education

• The Academy, originally founded at Athens by Plato around 387 BC, closes down by order of Justinian I, on charges of un-Christian activity. Many of the school's professors emigrate to Persia and Syria.

Religion

• The Benedictine Order is established at Monte Cassino near Naples by Benedict of Nursia, who founds a monastery and formulates for his monks strict rules in the "Regula Benedicti".
• The Canons of the Council of Orange are established, approving the Augustinian doctrine of sin and grace over Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism, but without Augustine's absolute predestination.