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General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*

• Law: End of Justinian law codes as Codex Vetus replaced by Codex Repeitae Praelectionis
• Philosophy: Johannes Philoponus Grammaticus refutes teachings of Proclus and other Neo-Platonists
• Deaths: Ostrogoth regent Amalaswintha, Gelimer king of Vandals

Africa

• North: Death of Gelimer king of Vandals as Belisarius the Byzantine general conquers North African Vandals

Americas

• Start of 60 years of few monuments in Mesoamerican city of Tikal – reason unknown

Europe

• England: Death of Cerdic (Cedric) the Cynric king (of Wessex)
• Franco-German States: Franks conquer Burgundy
  End of Frankish kings of Burgundy and start line of Merovingian Kings with Childebert I to 558
• Italian States: Death of Ostrogoth regent Amalaswintha
• Malta: End of Ostrogoths in Malta - Malta becomes Byzantine province
• Spanish States: Toledo becomes capital of Visigoth kingdom of Spain

Middle East

• Byzantine Empire: End of Justinian law codes as Codex Vetus replaced by Codex Repeitae Praelectionis
  Byzantines conquer Vandals of north Africa