515

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Byzantine Empire

• Autumn - Revolt of Vitalian: Vitalian, Byzantine general, mobilises his army and marches again towards Constantinople. He captures the suburb of Sycae across the Golden Horn, and encamps there.
• Emperor Anastasius I gives Marinus, former praetorian prefect of the East, command over the Byzantine army. He defeats the rebel fleet at the harbor entrance, using a sulfur-based chemical substance, similar to the later Greek fire.
• Marinus lands with an army on the shore of Sycae and defeats the rebels. Disheartened by the losses suffered, Vitalian flees north under cover of the night.
• Anastasius I leads, as a sign of his victory, a procession to Sosthenion, and attends a service of thanks at the local church dedicated to the Archangel Michael.
• Empress Ariadne, wife of Emperor Anastasius I, dies at Constantinople and is buried in the Church of the Holy Apostles.

  Europe

• Amalasuntha, daughter of king Theodoric the Great, marries Eutharic, an Ostrogoth noble of the old Amal line.

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Religion

• The St. Maurice's Abbey is founded by Sigismund of Burgundy. He sets up five groups of monks to whom he entrusts the liturgy of the praise of God.