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  • January 11 - Nika riots in Constantinople; the cathedral is destroyed. They are put down a sennight later by Belisarius and Mundus; up to 30,000 people are killed in the Hippodrome.
  • Justinian I orders the building of a new cathedral - begin of the construction of the Hagia Sophia.
  • Justinian signs a peace treaty with the Sassanian shah Chosroes I.

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