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== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* Emperor [[Anastasius I (emperor)|Anastasius I]] completes the strategic fortress at [[Dara (Mesopotamia)|Dara]] (Northern [[Mesopotamia]]). He raises the city walls to 30 feet (10 m), disregarding [[Persian people|Persian]] protests. Alarmed by the depredations of [[Slavic people|Slavs]] and [[Bulgars]] in [[Thrace]], he builds the [[Anastasian Wall]] from the [[Black Sea]] to [[Sea of Marmara|Propontis]], across the narrow peninsula near [[Constantinople]] (modern [[Turkey]]).<ref>Essential Histories, Rome at War AD 293–696 (p. 52). Michael Whitby, 2002. {{ISBN|1-84176-359-4}}</ref>

==== Europe ====
* [[Battle of Vouillé]]: A [[Franks|Frankish]] army under command of [[Clovis I]] invades the [[Visigothic Kingdom]], and defeats King [[Alaric II]] near [[Poitiers]]. The [[Visigoths]] refuse to be enslaved, and retreat to [[Septimania]] (Southern [[Gaul]]). Clovis annexes [[Gallia Aquitania|Aquitania]], and captures [[Toulouse]].  
* [[Gesalec]] succeeds his father Alaric II as king of the Visigoths. He establishes his residence at [[Narbonne]] and is supported by an alliance with the [[Ostrogoths|Ostrogothic]] king [[Theodoric the Great]].
* Clovis I dictates the ''[[Salic Law]]'' (Code of the Barbaric Laws) to the Franks (a written codification of civil law for citizens of the [[Francia|Frankish Kingdom]]).  
* [[Hermanafrid]], king of the [[Thuringii]], marries [[Amalaberga]]. He begins his rule, shared with his brothers [[Baderic]] and [[Bertachar]]. 
* Wooden [[coffin]]s and wooden [[tools]] are used in the burial places of the [[Alemanni]].

==== Asia ====
* The town of [[Guilin]], [[China]], is renamed Guizhou.
* [[Emperor Keitai|Keitai]] becomes the 26th [[emperor of Japan]] (according to the [[Nihon Shoki]]).
* The first and smaller of the two [[Buddhas of Bamyan]] is erected in central [[Afghanistan]].<ref>[[Roger Cohen|Cohen, Roger]]. "Return to Bamiyan", ''The New York Times'', October 29, 2007. Accessed October 29, 2007.</ref>

==== Mesoamerica ====
* A [[Maya civilization|Mayan]] altar with the head of the death god is built in [[Copán]], [[Honduras]].
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