Events

• February 13 - Justinian appoints a commission (including the jurist Tribonian) 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
• King Seong of Baekje adopts Buddhism as the state religion.
• Bulguksa, a Buddhist temple, is built in Korea.

Births

Deaths

• Euphrosius , Patriarch of Antioch (killed in the earthquake)
• Procopius of Gaza, Christian sophist and rhetorician
• Bodhidharma, Indian monk (approximate date)