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General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*

• Exploration: Cosmas Indicopleustes the explorer and geographer of Alexandria travels up Nile and writes his "Topographia Christiane"
• Religion: Dionysius Exiguus wrongly dates the birth of Christ on Dec 23 of 1 AD in his book "Easter Tables"
  Constance becomes bishop's see
  Aryan Baaptistery S. Maria in Cosmedin, Ravenna
  Buddhist caves at Ajanta with stone carvings
• Time: First European/Byzantine use of Jesus' birth to calculate time (beginning of AD or CE)
• Deaths: Boethius compiler of Greek writings

Europe

• General: Boethius, compiler of Greek writings, imprisoned and dies
• England: Scots from north Ireland begin to settle in north-west Britain

Middle East

• General: King Kaleb (Caleb) of Aksum (Abyssinia) conquerors Yemen in southern Arabia and builds many churches
  End of the Himyar people of Arabia as Aksumites occupy Yemen to 570