541

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
537 538 539 540 - 541 - 542 543 544 545

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
510s 520s 530s - 540s - 550s 560s 570s

align="center" | Centuries:
5th century - 6th century - 7th century

Events

January 1 - Flavius Basilius Junior appointed as consul in Constantinople, the last person to hold this office
January 2 - Earthquake strikes Laodicea.
Plague appears in Egypt, spreading the following year to Constantinople.
Totila becomes king of the Ostrogoths and drives the Byzantines out of Rome.
Jacob Baradaeus becomes bishop of Edessa.
John the Cappadocian is dismissed by Theodora for treason.
The Uighurs come under the rule of the Hephthalites.

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