9 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
China (7)
In the eleventh month, Gao Yan died at the Jinyang palace at age 27, leaving an edict calling for Changguang King Gao Zhan to be summoned to succeed him. (Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals 北齊書 卷6)
In the eleventh month, on the day guichou, Gao Zhan ascended the throne in the Southern Palace at Jinyang (Emperor Wucheng) and changed the second year of Huangjian to Daning. (Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals 北齊書 卷7)
Yin Liang, Northern Zhou commander of Xiangzhou city, surrendered, and Xiangzhou was pacified. (Book of Chen (Chenshu), Annals 陳書 卷3 天嘉2年 正月)
He Ruodun escaped alone and returned, having lost seven or eight in ten of his soldiers and horses; Wuling and the other commanderies were pacified. (Book of Chen (Chenshu), Annals 陳書 卷3 天嘉2年 七月)
Yuwen Hu is made Commander of All Military Affairs at Court and in the Field, and the six ministries designed by Taizu are promulgated in the ancestral temple (Book of Zhou (Zhoushu), Imperial Annals 周書 卷5 保定1年1月)
Western Europe (2)
In the fifty-first year of his reign, Chlothar seeks the tomb of Martin at Tours and does penance. (Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Hist. Franc. 4.XXI)