532 facts for kids

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	500s  510s  520s  – 530s –  540s  550s  560s
Years:	529 530 531 – 532 – 533 534 535

Events

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

Births

• Áedán mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riata

Deaths

• October 17 – Pope Boniface II