535

535 (DXXXV) was a common year beginning on a Monday of the Julian calendar, in effect on that date.

In the Roman Empire, the year was named that of Belisarius's consulship without a colleague, or less commonly, as 1288 Ab urbe condita.

Events

• This is the first two years of weather very strange, with snowfall in summer and almost without sunny days. Possibly caused by an eruption of the Krakatoa volcano. See Climate change in the years 535 and 536.
• In China the Wei West dynasty begins. The first king is Wen Di.
• May 13: Agapito I happens to John II as Pope No. 57.
• Finally I replaces Epifanio as Patriarch of Constantinople.
• Justiniano I orders Belisario to begin the reconquest of Italy, with which the Gothic War will begin (535-554). Simultaneously World invades Dalmatia.
• December 31: Belisario completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the ostrogoda military base of Siracusa and ending its consulate.

Deaths

• 8 May: Pope John II
• June 5: Epiphany, Patriarch of Constantinople
• Amalasunta, queen of the ostrogotes (said in exile)
• Timothy, Orthodox Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria