14 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
China (7)
On the 1st month, day jiazi, Gao Huan led 10,000 cavalry and raided Western Wei's Xia Prefecture in four days. Entering the city at night by ladders, he captured the prefect and moved 5,000 households. (Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals 北齊書 卷2)
Gao Huan led ten thousand cavalry to raid Xiazhou of Western Wei, captured its governor Feiyetou He Boyimituo, and moved five thousand households. (History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals 北史 卷6 天平3年)
By edict a great northern campaign was ordered; in the eleventh month a withdrawal order was issued. (Book of Liang (Liangshu), Annals 卷3 大同二年 十月)
Gao Huan, Chancellor of Eastern Wei, raids Xiazhou by night with 10,000 cavalry, having covered the distance in four days, and captures the city. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 卷157)
In the fifth month of the first year of Emperor Senka, by edict, Tsukushi, where tribute from distant lands gathers, is to store grain (Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) 日本書紀 卷第十八 宣化紀 1年 단락22)
Egypt & North Africa (2)
At the same time in Italy, Belisarius easily took Sicily, while in Carthage the army mutinied. (Procopius, History of the Wars 4.14.1)
The rebels plundered Carthage, set up Stotzas as tyrant on the Bulla plain, and marched on Carthage with eight thousand men. (Procopius, History of the Wars 4.15.1)
Southern Europe (4)
The besieged people of Naples appealed for help to the Roman Theodahad; Theodahad did not respond. (Procopius, History of the Wars 5.9.8–5.9.9)
Belisarius picked four hundred men for an entry plan, led by Magnus and Ennes, entering through the aqueduct channel. (Procopius, History of the Wars 5.10.3–5.10.8)
Goths near Rome, suspicious of Theodahad's lethargy, proclaimed Witigis as king. (Procopius, History of the Wars 5.11.6)
Belisarius entered Rome through the Asinarian Gate while the Goths withdrew by the Flaminian Gate; for the first time in sixty years Rome was in Roman hands. (Procopius, History of the Wars 5.14.14)
Changes of power ◆
Places where the world territory data shows a change of borders in this year.
◆ Western Wei takes 324,800 km² of former Liang dynasty land
◆ Byzantine Empire takes 124,400 km² of former Ostrogothic Kingdom land
◆ Liang dynasty loses 324,800 km² to Western Wei
◆ Ostrogothic Kingdom loses 124,400 km² to Byzantine Empire