551

This article is about the year 551. For the number, see 551 (number).
Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 5th century6th century7th century
Decades: 520s  530s  540s 550s 560s  570s  580s
Years: 548 549 550551552 553 554
551 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
551 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar551
DLI
Ab urbe condita1304
Assyrian calendar5301
Bengali calendar−42
Berber calendar1501
Buddhist calendar1095
Burmese calendar−87
Byzantine calendar6059–6060
Chinese calendar庚午(Metal Horse)
3247 or 3187
     to 
辛未年 (Metal Goat)
3248 or 3188
Coptic calendar267–268
Discordian calendar1717
Ethiopian calendar543–544
Hebrew calendar4311–4312
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat607–608
 - Shaka Samvat473–474
 - Kali Yuga3652–3653
Holocene calendar10551
Iranian calendar71 BP – 70 BP
Islamic calendar73 BH – 72 BH
Julian calendar551
DLI
Korean calendar2884
Minguo calendar1361 before ROC
民前1361年
Seleucid era862/863 AG
Thai solar calendar1093–1094

Year 551 (DLI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 551 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

Europe

Persia

Asia

By topic

Arts and sciences

Births

Deaths

References

  1. J.Norwich, Byzantium: The Early Centuries, p. 251
  2. Sbeinati, M.R.; Darawcheh R. & Mouty M, (2005). "The historical earthquakes of Syria: an analysis of large and moderate earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D." (PDF). Annals of Geophysics 48 (3): 347–435. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  3. Isidore of Seville, Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum, chapter 46. Translation by Guido Donini and Gordon B. Ford, Isidore of Seville's History of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi, second revised edition (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), p. 22
  4. Bury (1958), p. 116
  5. Greatrex & Lieu (2002), p. 118-119
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