In 527, the first year of Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I's reign, he became the adsessor ( legal adviser ) for Belisarius, Justinian's chief military commander who was then beginning a brilliant career.

* Summer – Belisarius arrives in Constantinople and is permitted by emperor Justinian I to celebrate a triumph, the first non-imperial triumph for over 500 years.

Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after Luigi Marchionni's adaptation of play, Belisarius, first staged in Munich in 1820 and then ( in Italian ) in Naples in 1826.

Sicily was the first part of Italy to be taken under control of General Belisarius who was commissioned by Eastern Emperor Justinian I who solidified his rule in the following years.

According to one text the water-mill was first made in 555 by Belisarius, according to another they were known to Pliny the Elder and Vitruvius.

JAG ( the American military acronym for Judge Advocate General ) is an American adventure / legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television ( now CBS Television Studios ) and, for the first season only, NBC Productions.

This mutual disaster was the first of Belisarius ' series of ( relatively ) unsuccessful wars against Sassanids, which led Byzantine to pay heavy tributes in exchange for a peace treaty and the remaining Byzantine land still in Persian hands.

Callinicum ended the first of Belisarius ' Persian campaigns, returning all of the land lost to them to Roman rule under Justinian I in the Eternal Peace agreement signed in summer 532.

Count Belisarius is a historical novel by Robert Graves, first published in 1938, recounting the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius ( AD 500-AD 565 ).

In 19 BC Balbus defeated the Garamantes, and on March 27 in that year received the honor of a triumph, which was then for the first time granted to one who was not a Roman citizen by birth, and for the last time to a private individual, until the triumph of Belisarius in 534.

Belisarius meanwhile leaves the dangers of both his emperor — being too popular can be a ' bad thing ' and his stunning victories in the first book against the Persians made him so — and cultivates the Kingdom of Axum as allies, a naval power of the day, and leads a five man invasion of his ' exposed ' Malwa enemies ( nominally diplomatic friends ).

In 533, taking advantage of the absence of the Vandal fleet, sent to suppress a revolt in Sardinia, an army of 15, 000 under Belisarius was transported to Africa by an invasion fleet of 92 dromons and 500 transports, beginning the Vandalic War, the first of the wars of reconquest of Emperor Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ).

Map of the operations of the first five years of the war, showing the Byzantine conquest of Italy under Belisarius

Belisarius first landed at Sicily, which was strategically located between the now Roman Africa and Italy, and whose population was well disposed toward the Empire.

From there, Belisarius prepared to cross over into Italy, where Theodahad, fearful because of the Byzantines ' successes, had sent envoys to Justinian, proposing at first to cede Sicily and recognize his overlordship, but later to cede all of Italy to him.

* In the Heart of Darkness ( 1998 ), the second book of the alternate history Belisarius series by Eric Flint and David Drake, gives a significantly different outcome of the Nika riots because of the influence of Malwa as the financiers of the revolt and the introduction of a grenadier company led by Belisarius ' wife, Antonina.

Fortune's Stroke covers the later events of the Malwa Invasion of Persia as Belisarius must campaign against Rana Sanga, a Rajput general of great skill who befriended Belisarius during second book of the series who is loyal to the Malwa through an overdeveloped adherence to honoring his given word.

The Dance of Time concludes the series as the disparate events set in motion by Belisarius unfold, creating the opportunities that he hopes will end the threat that the Malwa pose to Rome once and for all.

With Lakhmid aid, on 19 April 531, under the command of the Spahbod Azarethes, the Persians defeated Belisarius at the Battle of Callinicum, which led the Byzantines to pay heavy tributes for years in exchange for a peace treaty.

Belisarius had no intention of accepting the role, but saw how he could use this situation to his advantage, and feigned acceptance.

The Tide of Victory begins the third phase of the war against the Malwa, with Belisarius appointed commander of a combined Byzantine / Persian army to invade India while Axum and the Kushans ( a tribe turned against the Malwa in the subterfuges of Fortune's Stroke ) carry out operations north and south of him.

The conspiracy against the Malwa expands to a few others and establishes a secret research site oversaw by his wife and a discredited naval officer who carry on an affair seemingly under the nose of a Malwa spy, dance further in ' feined disaffection ' with spies of the Malwa and their allies within Byzantium and so tend to things in Byzantium with the added cast of a fellow General ( Belisarius ' best friend ) and his spy mistress.

However, Harold Macmillan was impressed by Alexander's calm and style, conducting dinners in his mess like those at an Oxbridge high table, discussing architecture and the campaigns of Belisarius, rather than the current war.

When Belisarius was sent back to Italy in 544 to cope with a renewal of the war with the Goths, now led by the able king Totila, Procopius appears to have no longer been on Belisarius ' staff.

* June 21 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails in 500 transports escorted by 92 war vessels ( dromons ) manned by 20, 000 seamen from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.

Under the Ostrogoths, Pavia became a fortified citadel and their last bulwark in the war against Belisarius.

The influential 20th century British military historian and theorist B. H. Liddell Hart ranked Sherman as one of the most important strategists in the annals of war, along with Scipio Africanus, Belisarius, Napoleon Bonaparte, T. E. Lawrence, and Erwin Rommel.

* Belisarius series: The premise of this science fiction ( more specifically alternate history ) series is that a war between two competing societies in the future spills over to 6th century Earth.

It concludes with the war between the Byzantines led by Belisarius against his Malwa enemies transforming from a cold to a hot war as Belisarius, separated from his companions by urgent circumstances born of intrigue and might — is hotly pursued fleeing half of Malwa's might, alone and unaided, some 1500 miles from the Malwa capital ( Modern Delhi ) to make his way back home to the west.

It became the standard rig of the Byzantine dromon war galley and was probably also employed by Belisarius ' flagship in the 532 AD invasion of the Vandal kingdom.

He uses the king's support to gather forces to defeat the Imperial general Belisarius – no mean feat, for somebody who never fought in any war against one of history's most well-known military talents, but Padway did manage to completely surprise Belisarius with tactics never used in the ancient world.

In addition to his reconquest of Carthage, noted above, Belisarius also recaptured Sicily, Naples, Rome and the rest of Italy from the Goths in a war lasting from 536 to 540.

Belisarius, for his part, resolved to conclude the war by taking Ravenna.

In 533, he accompanied Belisarius on his victorious expedition against the Vandal kingdom in North Africa, took part in the capture of Carthage, and remained in Africa with Belisarius ' successor Solomon the Eunuch when Belisarius returned to Constantinople.

He rejoined Belisarius for his campaign against the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy and experienced the Gothic siege of Rome that lasted a year and nine days, ending in mid-March, 538.

He becomes king of the Ostrogoths and assembles an army against Belisarius.

* March – Belisarius sails to Carthage with 1, 000 men to suppress a mutiny against Solomon.

While traveling back to Persia, Khosrau took ransoms from multiple Byzantine towns at which point Justinian called off his truce and prepared to send his great commander Belisarius to move against the Sassanians.

With his right flank gone, Belisarius was forced to retreat in an effort to re-form his line, but the retreat was followed and soon the Romans found themselves pressed against the river.

According to Procopius, Theodora and Antonina, wife of Belisarius, allied against the Prefect.

He also tricks Justinian I into releasing Belisarius from his oath of allegiance and quickly enlists the military genius to command an army against the Franks.

* 526, Death of Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great, Burgundians lose the Ostrogoths as allies, Raid against Gothic Gepidae by Byzantine General Belisarius.

The charge of treason levelled by Procopius against Harith seems to be further undermined by the fact that, unlike Belisarius, he was retained in command and was active in operations around Martyropolis later in the year.