* 529 – First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis ( a fundamental work in jurisprudence ) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.

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.

* Constantinople under Justinian is the scene of the book A Flame in Byzantium ( ISBN 0312930267 ) by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, released in 1987.

He sanctioned a code of laws for Great and Lesser Poland, which gained for him the title of " the Polish Justinian " and founded the University of Kraków which is the oldest Polish university, although his death temporarily stalled the university's development ( which is why it is today called the " Jagiellonian " rather than " Casimirian " University ).

* 527: Justinian I is crowned emperor of Byzantium.

Justinian showed much ambition, and it has been thought that he was functioning as virtual regent long before Justin made him associate Emperor on 1 April 527, although there is no conclusive evidence for this.

The Barberini Ivory, which is thought to portray either Justinian or Anastasius I

While the crowd was rioting in the streets, Justinian considered fleeing the capital, but he remained in the city on the stirring words of Theodora ( according to Procopius, she said " For an Emperor to become a fugitive is not a thing to be endured ... I hold with the old saying that the purple makes an excellent shroud ".

In Civilization IV, Justinian is the leader of the Byzantine Empire.

The principle can be traced to a maxim which furnished a text of the Pandects of Justinian: in their Latin version, " Rex solutus est a legibus ", or " The king is released from the laws.

" " 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.

Agapetus is said to have replied, " With eager longing have I come to gaze upon the Most Christian Emperor Justinian.

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.

Biovar Antiqua is thought to correspond to the Plague of Justinian ; it is not known whether this biovar also corresponds to earlier or smaller epidemics of bubonic plague, or whether these were even truly bubonic plague.

* 705: Justinian II is forced to give the title Caesar of Byzantium to the Bulgarian Emperor Tervel.

Emperor Justinian I negotiates an end to the hostilities and Belisarius is hailed as a hero.

* Justinian, later Byzantine emperor, marries in Constantinople his mistress Theodora, who is by profession a courtesan ( approximate date ).

* August 1 – Justin I, age 77, dies at Constantinople and is succeeded by Justinian I who becomes sole emperor.

* 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.

As a Christian Roman emperor, Justinian considered it his divine duty to restore the Roman Empire to its ancient boundaries.

It has been suggested that Asparukh was aware of the importance of the Roman military camp ( campus tribunalis ) established by Justinian I outside Odessus and considered it ( or its remnants ) as the legitimate seat of power for both Lower Moesia and Scythia.

The Lazic wars are intertwined with Khosrau's war with Justinian insomuch as there were many battles which overlapped each other, yet they are generally considered different wars.

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.

Justinian, in despair, considered fleeing, but his wife Theodora is said to have dissuaded him, saying, " Those who have worn the crown should never survive its loss.

Although his rule was considered generally successful, especially in containing the Arab threat to the east, he was overthrown by the former emperor Justinian II and subsequently executed.

Emperor Justinian I ( died 565 ) ordered that the children of priests, deacons and subdeacons who, " in disregard of the sacred canons, have children by women with whom, according to sacerdotal regulation, they may not cohabit " be considered illegitimate on the same level as those " procreated in incest and in nefarious nuptials ".

* Theodora ( wife of Justinian I ), 6th century Byzantine ( Eastern Roman ) empress, wife of Justinian I, considered a saint by the Greek Orthodox Church

Having married into the Gothic Amal royal line through his second wife Matasuntha and a distinguished service record, at the time of his sudden death, he was considered the probable heir to Emperor Justinian.

By the reign of the Emperor Justinian I the church was no longer considered grand enough, and a new Church of the Holy Apostles was built on the same site.

Procopius, historian at Justinian's court, considered that behind the laws were political motivations, as they allowed Justinian to destroy his enemies and confiscate their properties, and were hardly efficient stopping homosexuality between ordinary citizens.

For example the title was applied to the Byzantine empress Theodora, who had started life as an erotic actress but later became the wife of the Emperor Justinian and, after her death, an Orthodox saint.

Menas or Mennas or Minas or Mina, a Christian saint was appointed by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I as Patriarch of Constantinople in 536.

Stouf's Bust of Belisarius at the J. Paul Getty Museum shows the general of Justinian, blinded, as a beggar, in a manner that suggests a philosopher or saint.

This in essence, puts the problem of thwarting the horrible future visions exposed by the crystal in Belisarius's lap even as emissaries of the far off Malwa Empire are visiting Rome to establish a factional struggle to divide Byzantium — and are becoming very popular amongst some of the ruling class and with the Emperor Justinian in particular, forcing Belisarius and friends to move surreptitiously.

* 532 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.

* St Justinian the Emperor Orthodox Icon and Synaxarion ( 14 November )

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.

* February 23 – Emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.

* Justinian Marina ( 1901 – 1977 ), Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1948 to 1977

The Chalcedonian churches were the ones that remained united with Rome, Constantinople and the three Roman Orthodox patriarchates of the East ( Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem ), that under Justinian II at the council in Trullo were organised under a form of rule known as the Pentarchy.

By January 1953 some 300-500 Orthodox priests were being held in concentration camps, and after Patriarch Nicodim's death in May 1948, the party succeeded in having the ostensibly docile Justinian Marina elected to succeed him.

At the end of 543 or the beginning of 544 the Emperor Justinian I issued an edict in which the three chapters were anathematized, in hope of encouraging the Oriental Orthodox to accept the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon and the Tome of Pope Leo I, thus bringing religious harmony to the Byzantine Empire.

The Ghassanid king al-Harith ibn Jabalah ( reigned 529 – 569 ) supported the Byzantines against Sassanid Persia and was given the title patricius in 529 by the emperor Justinian I. Al-Harith was a Miaphysite Christian ; he helped to revive the Syrian Miaphysite ( Jacobite ) Church and supported Miaphysite development despite Orthodox Byzantium regarding it as heretical.

* In a letter to Justinian Bert in 1756, Montenegrin chieftains said: " We are of the Orthodox Christian faith and law of the Eastern Church, of the honorable and glorious Slav-Serb kin ".

Justinian Marina ( born Ioan Marina ) ( February 2, 1901, in Şueşti, Vâlcea County – March 26, 1977, in Bucharest ) was a Romanian Orthodox prelate.

Justinian travelled to the Armenian Patriarchate at Echmiadzin ( 1958 and 1966 ), to the Ethiopian Church ( 1969 and 1971 ), to the Coptic Church ( 1969 and 1971 ) and to the Indian Orthodox Church ( 1969 ).

In March 1979, Rabbi Rosen and Patriarch Justinian, head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, jointly sponsored a Jewish and Orthodox Christian Dialogue in Lucerne, Switzerland.

* Justinian Marina ( 1901 – 1977 ), Romanian Orthodox prelate

He does not use for these divisions the term " patriarchate " because the term " patriarch " as a uniform term for the heads of the divisions came into use only in the time of Emperor Justinian I in the following century, and because there is little suggestion that the divisions were regarded as quasi-sovereign entities, as patriarchates are in Eastern Orthodox ecclesiology.