Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

Inside over the first door I saw one of these, which shows Constantine offering the city to the Virgin Mary and Justinian offering the temple.

The Plague of Justinian in the 6th and 7th centuries is the first known attack on record, and marks the first firmly recorded pattern of bubonic plague.

One of the first and throughout its history one of the most significant treatises of the common law, Bracton ’ s De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ( On the Laws and Customs of England ), was heavily influenced by the division of the law in Justinian ’ s Institutes.

Isidore of Miletus was a renowned scientist and mathematician before Emperor Justinian I hired him, “ Isidorus taught stereometry and physics at the universities, first of Alexandria then of Constantinople, and wrote a commentary on an older treatise on vaulting .” Emperor Justinian I appointed his architects to rebuild the Hagia Sophia following his victory over protesters within the capital city of his Roman Empire, Constantinople.

The first of the western kingdoms Justinian attacked was that of the Vandals in North Africa.

Justinian was one of the first Roman Emperors to be depicted wielding the cross on the obverse of a coin.

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.

" Justinian, for the first time in the history of the Church, personally consecrated Anthimus ' legally-elected successor, Mennas.

* Plague of Justinian, from 541 to 750, was the first recorded outbreak of the bubonic plague.

* 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.

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.

* St. Lawrence Justinian ( Lorenzo Giustiniani, 1381 – 1456 ), first Patriarch of Venice

The Codex Justinianus ( Code of Justinian, Justinian's Code ) was the first part to be completed, on 7 April 529.

The first was the death of Emperor Justinian I in 565.

A pious ruler, Justinian was the first emperor to include the image of Christ on coinage issued in his name and attempted to outlaw various pagan festivals and practices that persisted in the Empire.

By his first wife Eudokia, Justinian II had at least one daughter:

Relying on the support of the Monothelite party, he made some pretensions to the throne on the outbreak of the first great rebellion against Emperor Justinian II ; these led to his relegation to Cephalonia by Tiberius Apsimarus, and subsequently to his banishment, by order of Justinian, to Cherson.

It has been suggested that the 681 peace treaty with the Byzantine Empire that established the new Bulgarian state was concluded at Varna and the first Bulgarian capital south of the Danube may have been provisionally located in its vicinity — possibly in an ancient city near Lake Varna's north shore named Theodorias ( Θεοδωριάς ) by Justinian I — before it moved to Pliska 70 km to the west.

In his reign, all important records were translated into Arabic, and for the first time a special currency for the Muslim world was minted, which led to war with the Byzantine Empire under Justinian II.

The St David's lifeboat, located at St Justinian, has saved an estimated 360 people since the first lifeboat was located there in 1869 ; and four lifeboatmen have died while saving others.

Hermolaus dedicated his epitome to Justinian ; whether the first or second emperor of that name is meant is disputed, but it seems probable that Stephanus flourished in Byzantium in the earlier part of the sixth century AD, under Justinian I.

Two thirds of the Institutiones of Justinian consists of literal quotes from Gaius.

" While the first part, or Codex, of Justinian ’ s Corpus Civilis Juris contained 12 books of constitutions, or imperial laws, the second and third parts, the Digest and the Institutiones, contained the ius of Classical Roman jurists and the Institutes of Gaius.

They studied Roman Law based on the Digestae, the Codex of Justinian, the Authenticae ( an abridged Latin translation of selected constitutions of Justinian, promulgated in Greek after the enactment of the Codex and therefore called Novellae ), and his law manual, the Institutiones Iustiniani, compiled together in the Corpus Iuris Civilis.

Book Eight of The Wars of Justinian, and the Secret History, suggest that his relationship with Belisarius seems to have cooled thereafter.

Cambridge: Loeb-Harvard UP, 1954 .— Chapters XXII and XXIII of Book II ( pages 451 – 473 ) are Procopius's famous description of the Plague of Justinian.

The Capitulary Library contains valuable manuscripts, including an evangelarium of the fourth century, the " Novels " of Justinian, the Leges Langobardorum ( Laws of the Lombards-Germanic ); also hagiographical manuscripts, not all of which have been critically examined ; and a very old copy of the Imitation of Christ, which is relied upon as an argument for attributing the authorship to John Gersen and finally the famous Vercelli Book.

However, contrary to the secret history, Justinian was not named as successor until less than a year before Justin's death and he spent 3, 700 pounds of gold during a celebration in 520.

In this historical text, Spadones are eligible to marry women ( D 23. 3. 39. 1 ), institute posthumous heirs ( D 28. 2. 6 ), and adopt children ( Institutions of Justinian 1. 11. 9 ), unless they are castrati.

In 711, faced by a serious revolt in Asia Minor, Justinian again sought the aid of Tervel, but obtained only lukewarm support manifested in an army of 3, 000.

The sixth century Digest of Justinian ( 22. 3. 2 ) provides, as a general rule of evidence: Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat " Proof lies on him who asserts, not on him who denies ".

His greatest work is his Geschichte der byzantinischen Literatur von Justinian bis zum Ende des Ostroemischen Reiches ( History of Byzantine literature from Justinian to the fall of the Eastern Empire, 1453 ), a second edition of which was published in 1897, with the collaboration of Albert Ehrhard ( section on theology ) and Heinrich Gelzer ( general sketch of Byzantine history, AD 395-1453 ).

Narses went directly to the Blues ' section, where he approached the important Blues and reminded them that Emperor Justinian supported them over the Greens.

Isidore of Seville offers two conflicting stories: in the section on Agila, the Goths surrounding him killed him out of fear " that Roman soldiers might invade Spain on the pretext of giving help "; while in the following section Isidore states Athanagild had asked Justinian for his help, but once they arrived in Spain " he was unable to remove them from the territory of the kingdom despite his efforts.

* February 13 – Emperor Justinian I appoints a commission ( including the jurist Tribonian ) to codify all imperial laws that were still in force from Hadrian to the current date ( This becomes the Corpus Juris Civilis ).

* November 13 or November 14 – Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor

The other poem, In laudem Justini minoris (" In praise of the younger Justin "), in four books, contains the death of Justinian, the coronation of his successor Justin II ( November 13, 565 ); and the early events of his reign.

The emperor Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ) was known for his successes in war, for his legal reforms and for his public works.

" " The French legal scholars interpreted the imperial office of the Justinian code in a generic way and arrived at the conclusion that every ' king is an emperor in his own kingdom ,' that is, he possesses the prerogatives of legal absolutism that the Corpus Juris Civilis attributes to the Roman emperor.

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments comprising more than a thousand years of jurisprudence from the Twelve Tables ( c. 439 BC ) to the Corpus Juris Civilis ( AD 529 ) ordered by the emperor Justinian I.

The codes of Justinian, particularly the Corpus juris civilis ( 529-534 ) continued to be the basis of legal practice in the Empire throughout its so-called Byzantine history.

Roman law as preserved in the codes of Justinian and in the Basilica remained the basis of legal practice in Greece and in the courts of the Eastern Orthodox Church even after the fall of the Byzantine Empire and the conquest by the Turks, and also formed the basis for much of the Fetha Negest, which remained in force in Ethiopia until 1931.

Unlike Justinian, Edward did not codify the law, but as William Stubbs pointed out, " if it be meant to denote the importance and permanence of his legislation and the dignity of his position in legal history ", the comparison is still a valid one.

Alimony has been discussed in ancient legal texts including the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (# 137 -# 142 ) and the Code of Justinian.

The most famous ancient civil code, however, is the Corpus Juris Civilis, a codification of Roman law produced between 529-534 AD by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, which forms the basis of civil law legal systems.

They were experts in interpreting Canon law, a basis of which was the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian which is considered the source of the civil law legal tradition.

Scholars A. Solovjev and Soulis conclude that the Council of 1349 issued a three-part comprehensive legal document, since most early manuscripts of the Code also contain two other texts: The first part was an abridgement of the Syntagma, the second part was the " Code of Justinian " ( an abridgement of The Partner's Law ), and the third part was always Dušan's Code itself.

The rioters, now armed and probably controlled by their allies in the Senate, also demanded that Justinian dismiss the prefect John the Cappadocian, who was responsible for tax collecting, and the quaestor Tribonian, who was responsible for rewriting the legal code.

In the 6th century, Emperor Justinian declared Christmas to be a legal holiday.

In the Byzantine Empire, there seems to have been more cheating ; Justinian I's reformed legal code prohibits drivers from placing curses on their opponents, but otherwise there does not seem to have been any mechanical tampering or bribery.

Tribonian or Tribonianos ( Τριβωνιανός, c. 500 – 547 ) was a jurist during the reign of the Emperor Justinian I, who revised the legal code of the Roman Empire.

He became a successful lawyer in Constantinople, and was appointed by Justinian in 528 as one of the commissioners to prepare the new imperial legal code, the Corpus Juris Civilis, released in 529.

As emperor, Leo III, introduced more administrative and legal reforms than had been promulgated since the time of Justinian.

The Emperor Justinian I's formation of a new code of law, the Corpus Juris Civilis, served as a basis of subsequent development of legal codes.

The disability imposed on a Jew engaged in legal contention with a Christian dates back to Byzantine emperor Justinian I, who declared that neither Jews nor heretics should be admitted as witnesses against Christians ; secular courts, however, did not recognize this disability.

The Justinian Code collected together existing legal material at the time.