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Byzantine Empire

• February 13 - Emperor Justinian I appoints a commission to codify all laws of the Roman Empire that are still in force from Hadrian to the current date; this becomes the Corpus Juris Civilis.
• November 29 - Natural disaster: A second great earthquake strikes Antioch, killing thousands, and causing a fire that destroys the Domus Aurea built by Constantine the Great.
• Justin, Byzantine general, dies in battle against the Bulgars on the frontier of the Danubian limes in Moesia. He is succeeded by Constantiolus.

  Asia

• March 31 - Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei, emperor of Northern Wei, is poisoned by order of his mother, the regent Empress Dowager Hu.
• April 1 - The 6-week-old only daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei is proclaimed empress regnant of Northern Wei, by Empress Dowager Hu.
• April 2 - Xiaoming's daughter is replaced by the 2- or 3-year-old Yuan Zhao as emperor of Northern Wei, by order of Empress Dowager Hu
• May 17 - Empress Dowager Hu, regent of Northern Wei, having resorted to an old monarchist tool and executed lovers who have displeased her, is drowned in the Yellow River along with the nominal emperor, the baby Yuan Zhao, and prince Yuan Yong by order of General Erzhu Rong, who places 21-year-old Yuan Ziyou on the throne as Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei.
• The Hephthalites move from the Hindu Kush into the Punjab region, and eastward across the Ganges Delta, ravaging cities and Buddhist monasteries.
• Yasodharman, Maharaja of Malwa, defeats the Hun invaders under Mihirakula in central India.

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Religion

• King Seong of Baekje adopts Buddhism as the state religion.
• Bulguksa, a Buddhist temple, is built in South Korea.