Events By Place Byzantine Empire January 1 — Decimus Theodorius Paulinus is appointed consul (the last to hold this office in the West). November 16 — A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published. Gelimer surrenders to Byzantine general Belisarius, after spending a miserable winter in the mountains of Numidia. The Vandal kingdom of North Africa ends, and the provinces return to the Byzantine Empire. Malta becomes a Byzantine province (until 870). Europe… (More on 534)