Benedict founds Monte Cassino
The abbey whose Rule will shape Western monasticism
Around 529 Benedict of Nursia founded a monastery on the mountain of Monte Cassino between Rome and Naples. The Rule of Saint Benedict written there — prayer, work and obedience — became the foundation of Western monasticism.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 529–534 Code of Justinian — same year
Africa
- 533–534 Belisarius destroys the Vandal kingdom — 4 years later
Asia
- c. 538 Buddhism reaches Japan — 9 years later
- 552 Founding of the First Turkic Khaganate — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Justinian I (aged 47)
- Aryabhata (aged 53)
- Theodora (aged 29)
- Khosrow I (aged 28)