554

This article is about the year 554. For the number, see 554 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	520s  530s  540s  – 550s –  560s  570s  580s
Years:	551 552 553 – 554 – 555 556 557

554 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

554 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	554 DLIV
Ab urbe condita	1307
Armenian calendar	3 ԹՎ Գ
Assyrian calendar	5304
Bengali calendar	−39
Berber calendar	1504
Buddhist calendar	1098
Burmese calendar	−84
Byzantine calendar	6062–6063
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3250 or 3190     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3251 or 3191
Coptic calendar	270–271
Discordian calendar	1720
Ethiopian calendar	546–547
Hebrew calendar	4314–4315
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	610–611
- Shaka Samvat	476–477
- Kali Yuga	3655–3656
Holocene calendar	10554
Iranian calendar	68 BP – 67 BP
Islamic calendar	70 BH – 69 BH
Julian calendar	554 DLIV
Korean calendar	2887
Minguo calendar	1358 before ROC 民前1358年
Seleucid era	865/866 AG
Thai solar calendar	1096–1097

King Athanagild (554–567)

Year 554 (DLIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 554 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

• Battle of the Volturnus: In the spring Buccelin marched north, the Frankish army infected by dysentery is reduced to about 30,000 men. The Byzantine army with 18,000 men (including a contingent of Goths under Aligern) marched south to meet them at Casilinum (on the banks of the River Volturno). Narses sends a cavalry force under Chanaranges to destroy the supply wagons of the Franks. Outmanoeuvring Buccelin, he chooses a disposition similar to that at Taginae. After a frontal assault on the Byzantine centre the Franks and the Alamanni are annihilated. Meanwhile, in the north, Lothair and his army is struck by an epidemic.
• End of the Gothic War: Narses garrisoned in Italy an army of 16,000 men. The recovery of the Italian Peninsula cost the empire about 300,000 pounds of gold.
• August 13 – Emperor Justinian I rewards Liberius for his long and distinguished service in the Pragmatic Sanction, granting him extensive estates in Italy.

Europe

• Byzantine forces under Liberius seize Granada (Andalusia) and occupies the old province of Baetica. Justinian I calls Belisarius out of retirement to complete the consolidation of reconquered regions of Southern Spain.
• Athanagild is crowned as king of the Visigoths and succeeds Agila I. He acknowledges the suzerainty of the Byzantine Empire.

Asia

• Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'man is defeated and killed by the Ghassanids under al-Harith ibn Jabalah at the battle of Yawm Halima; 'Amr III ibn al-Mundhir succeeds as king of the Lakhmids.
• Gong Di succeeds his brother Fei Di as emperor of Western Wei. He is deposed by general Yuwen Tai and puts him to death.
• The province Jiangling (Central China) is captured; 100,000 inhabitants are enslaved and distributed to generals and officials.
• Baekje and the Gaya Confederacy wage war upon Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, but are defeated.
• Muqan Qaghan succeeds his brother Issik Qaghan as emperor (khagan) of the Göktürks.
• The second and larger of the two Buddhas of Bamyan is erected in central Afghanistan.

By topic

Religion

• Cassiodorus, Roman statesman, founds the Monastery at Vivarium (approximate date).

Births

• Fei Di, emperor of the Chen Dynasty (d. 570)
• Suiko, empress of Japan (d. 628)
• Wendelin of Trier, hermit and abbot (approximate date)

Deaths

• Agila I, king of the Visigoths
• Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'man, king of the Lakhmids (Iraq)
• Fei Di, emperor of Western Wei
• Liberius, Roman aristocrat (approximate date)
• Seong, king of Baekje (Korea)
• Yuwen, empress of Western Wei (approximate date)