Battle of Taginae
Narses defeats Totila as the Gothic War nears its end
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In summer 552 the Eastern Roman army under Narses defeated the Ostrogoths in the Apennines; King Totila was mortally wounded. His successor Teia soon fell too, and by 554 almost all of Italy was back under Constantinople's rule.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 529–534 Code of Justinian — 23 years earlier
- c. 570 Year of the Elephant — 18 years later
Africa
- 533–534 Belisarius destroys the Vandal kingdom — 19 years earlier
Asia
- c. 538 Buddhism reaches Japan — 14 years earlier
- 552 Founding of the First Turkic Khaganate — same year
Alive at the time
- Justinian I (aged 70)
- Khosrow I (aged 51)