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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
534 535 536 537 - 538 - 539 540 541 542\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
500s 510s 520s - 530s - 540s 550s 560s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
5th century - 6th century - 7th century\n|} Events\n*End of the Kofun and beginning of the Asuka period, the second part of the Yamato period in Japan.\n* Buddhism introduced formally into Japan (by some accounts; see also 552).\n* End of the Ostrogothic siege of Rome.\n*Gabhran becomes king of Dalriada. Births\n*Emperor Bidatsu of Japan\n*Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian\n*Zhiyi, de facto founder of Tiantai Buddhism Deaths\n*February 8 - Saint Severinus of Antioch, patriarch of Antioch\n*Comgall, King of Dalriada \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n