Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century
Decades: 470s - 480s - 490s - 500s - 510s - 520s - 530s - 540s - 550s - 560s - 570s
Years: 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533
Events
- February 13 - Justinian appoints a commission to codify all imperial laws that were still in force from Hadrian to the current date. (This becomes the Corpus Juris Civilis.)
- Battle of Daras: Justinian's commander Belisarius defeats Persians in his first major battle of the campaign to regain territory
- Northern Wei Xiao Zhuang Di succeeds Northern Wei Xiao Ming Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty
- Natural disaster: An Earthquake strikes Antioch, killing thousands, and causing a fire that destroyed the Great Church built by Constantine the Great
Deaths
- Euphrosius, Patriarch of Antioch\n