27 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
China (22)
In the first month, Prince Gao Yue of Qinghe led his army across the Yangtze, attacked Xiashou and won, and the Liang governor of Yingzhou, Lu Fahe, was sent over to him. (Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals 北齊書 卷4)
In the third month, Prince Gao Huan of Shangdang attacked Dongguan and won, killing the Liang general Pei Zhiheng and killing or capturing several thousand. (Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals 北齊書 卷4)
In the fifth month, Xiao Ming, Marquis of Zhenyang, the Liang ruler set up by Qi, entered Jianye. (In the sixth month an edict permitted the people of Liang to return home.) (Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals 北齊書 卷4)
In the seventh month, he set up supply depots at Bailu and with five thousand elite cavalry pursued the Rouran; on the day renwu he caught up with them at Huaishuo Garrison (Guyang), routed them, and pushed on as far as Woye, seizing over twenty thousand heads and hundreds of thousands of livestock. (Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals 北齊書 卷4)
In the tenth month, Liang general Chen Baxian ambushed and killed Wang Sengbian, deposed Xiao Ming, and then restored Xiao Fangzhi. (Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals 北齊書 卷4)
In the eleventh month, Grand Commandant Xiao Gui reached the Yangtze and sent Liu Damo and others across to garrison Shitou; pressed by Chen Baxian, he surrendered Shitou. (Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals 北齊書 卷4)
That year, 1.8 million corvée laborers were conscripted to build over nine hundred li of wall from Beixiakou in Youzhou to Hengzhou. (Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals 北齊書 卷4)
Northern Qi sent back Marquis Zhenyang Xiao Yuanming and had him enthroned; Wang Sengbian accepted him and changed the era to Tiancheng, but Chen Baxian opposed. (Book of Chen (Chenshu), Annals 陳書 卷1 承聖4年 五月)
In the second month of the sixteenth year, Prince Hye of Baekje reports that King Seong was killed by the enemy, and the emperor mourns (Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) 日本書紀 卷第十九 欽明紀 16年 단락62)
Chlothar orders the church revenues to be paid one-third to the royal treasury, and Bishop Injuriosus refuses to sign. (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 4.II)
When the Saxons revolt, Chlothar sweeps through Thuringia and wipes out most of the people there. (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 4.X)
Changes of power ◆
Places where the world territory data shows a change of borders in this year.