536

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536 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 536
DXXXVI
Ab urbe condita 1289
Assyrian calendar 5286
Balinese saka calendar 457–458
Bengali calendar −58 – −57
Berber calendar 1486
Buddhist calendar 1080
Burmese calendar −102
Byzantine calendar 6044–6045
Chinese calendar 乙卯年 (Wood  Rabbit)
3233 or 3026
     to 
丙辰年 (Fire  Dragon)
3234 or 3027
Coptic calendar 252–253
Discordian calendar 1702
Ethiopian calendar 528–529
Hebrew calendar 4296–4297
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 592–593
 - Shaka Samvat 457–458
 - Kali Yuga 3636–3637
Holocene calendar 10536
Iranian calendar 86 BP – 85 BP
Islamic calendar 89 BH – 88 BH
Javanese calendar 423–424
Julian calendar 536
DXXXVI
Korean calendar 2869
Minguo calendar 1376 before ROC
民前1376年
Nanakshahi calendar −932
Seleucid era 847/848 AG
Thai solar calendar 1078–1079
Tibetan calendar ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Wood-Hare)
662 or 281 or −491
     to 
མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Fire-Dragon)
663 or 282 or −490

Year 536 (Roman numerals: DXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year after the Consulship of Belisarius.

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In 2018, medieval scholar Michael McCormick nominated 536 as "the worst year to be alive" because of the volcanic winter of 536 caused by a volcanic eruption early in the year, causing average temperatures in Europe and China to decline and resulting in crop failures and famine for well over a year. [1] [2]

Events

By place

Eastern Roman ("Byzantine") Empire

Europe

Africa

Asia

By topic

Religion

Climate

  • The volcanic winter of 536, thought to have been caused by an extensive veil of dust in the atmosphere, began in the Northern Hemisphere. It continued until the following year, causing unseasonal weather and crop failure worldwide. [2]

Births

Deaths

Notes and references

Notes

    References

    1. Walsh, Bryan (December 24, 2020). "Despite the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 wasn't the worst year ever – by a long shot". Axios. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
    2. 1 2 Gibbons, Ann (November 15, 2018). "Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive". Science . AAAS. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
    3. Bury (1958). pp. 143–144.
    4. 1 2 Vitiello, Massimiliano (January 1, 2014). Theodahad: A Platonic King at the Collapse of Ostrogothic Italy. University of Toronto Press. pp. 157–160. ISBN   978-1-4426-4783-1.
    5. 1 2 Bury (1923). Vol. II, Ch. XVIII. pp. 174-180.
    6. Bambury, Pádraig; Beechinor, Stephen (2000). "The Annals of Ulster" (Electronic ed.). Cork, Ireland: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College Cork. pp. U536.3n. Failure of bread.
    7. Procopius, De Bello GothicoI.VII.
    8. Stanhope, Earl Philip Henry (1848). The Life of Belisarius. J. Murray. pp. 154–158.
    9. Ochoa, George; Hoffman, Jennifer; Tin, Tina (2005). Climate: the force that shapes our world and the future of life on earth. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale. p. 71. ISBN   978-1-59486-288-5.
    10. Allen, Pauline (1981). Evagrius Scholasticus, the Church Historian. Peeters Publishers & Booksellers. p. 1. ISBN   9789042928091.
    11. Bury, J. B. (January 1, 1958). History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I. to the Death of Justinian. Courier Corporation. p. 172. ISBN   978-0-486-20399-7.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
    12. Lindsay, T. F. (1949). Saint Benedict: His Life and Work. Burns, Oates. p. 102.