528

This article is about the year 528. For the number, see 528 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	490s  500s  510s  – 520s –  530s  540s  550s
Years:	525 526 527 – 528 – 529 530 531

528 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

528 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	528 DXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1281
Assyrian calendar	5278
Bengali calendar	−65
Berber calendar	1478
Buddhist calendar	1072
Burmese calendar	−110
Byzantine calendar	6036–6037
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3224 or 3164     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3225 or 3165
Coptic calendar	244–245
Discordian calendar	1694
Ethiopian calendar	520–521
Hebrew calendar	4288–4289
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	584–585
- Shaka Samvat	450–451
- Kali Yuga	3629–3630
Holocene calendar	10528
Iranian calendar	94 BP – 93 BP
Islamic calendar	97 BH – 96 BH
Julian calendar	528 DXXVIII
Korean calendar	2861
Minguo calendar	1384 before ROC 民前1384年
Seleucid era	839/840 AG
Thai solar calendar	1070–1071

Year 528 (DXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sabbatius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1281 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 528 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• February 13 – Emperor Justinian I appoints a commission (including the jurist Tribonian) to codify all laws of the Roman Empire that are still in force from Hadrian to the current date. This becomes the Corpus Juris Civilis.
• November 29 – Natural disaster: A second great earthquake strikes Antioch, killing thousands (including Patriarch Euphrasius), and causing a fire that destroys the Domus Aurea (Great Church) built by Constantine the Great.
• Justin, Byzantine general (magister militum), dies in battle against the Bulgars on the frontier of the Danubian limes in Moesia. He is succeeded by Constantiolus.

Asia

• March 31 – Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei, emperor of Northern Wei, is poisoned by order of his mother, the regent Empress Dowager Hu.
• April 1 – The 6-week-old only daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei is proclaimed empress regnant of Northern Wei by Empress Dowager Hu.
• April 2 – Xiaoming's daughter is replaced by the 2- or 3-year-old Yuan Zhao as emperor of Northern Wei by order of Empress Dowager Hu
• May 17 – Empress Dowager Hu, regent of Northern Wei, having resorted to an old monarchist tool and executed lovers who have displeased her, is drowned in the Yellow River along with the nominal emperor, the baby Yuan Zhao, and prince Yuan Yong by order of General Erzhu Rong who places 21-year-old Yuan Ziyou on the throne as Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei.
• The Hephthalites (White Huns) move from the Hindu Kush into the Punjab region and eastward across the Ganges Delta ravaging cities and Buddhism monasteries.
• Yasodharman, Maharaja ("great king") of Malwa, defeats the Hun invaders under Mihirakula in central India.

By topic

Religion

• King Seong of Baekje adopts Buddhism as the state religion.
• Bulguksa, a Buddhist temple, is built in South Korea.

Births

• February 12 – Daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei, nominal empress regnant of Northern Wei

Deaths

• March 31 – Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei, emperor of Northern Wei (b. 510)
• May 17
  • Empress Dowager Hu of Northern Wei
  • Yuan Yong, imperial prince of Northern Wei
  • Yuan Zhao, emperor of Northern Wei (b. 526)
• Anicia Juliana, daughter of Olybrius (approximate date)
• Bodhidharma, Buddhist monk (approximate date)
• Euphrasius, patriarch of Antioch (in the earthquake)
• Jabalah IV ibn al-Harith, king of the Ghassanids
• Justin, Byzantine general (magister militum)
• Procopius of Gaza, Christian sophist and rhetorician