General
Population: Between 190 and 230 million*
- Religion: Death of Pope Hormisdas
Pope John I appointed
- Deaths: Vandal king Thrasamund, Pope Hormisdas (father of Pope Syverius), Burgundian king Sigismund
Africa
- End of Vandal king Thrasamund – Hilderic new king to 530
Europe
- Franco-German States: Burgundian king Sigismund dies and brother Godomar rules
- Scotland: Famine described as terrible