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• April 7 – Emperor Justinian I issues the Codex Justinianus (Code of Civil Laws), reformulating Roman law in an effort to control his unruly people (see 532).{{Cite journal|last=Dingledy|first=Frederick W.|date=18 August 2016|title=The Corpus Juris Civilis: A Guide to Its History and Use|url=https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1122&context=libpubs|journal=Legal Reference Services Quarterly|language=en|location=Rochester, NY|volume=35|issue=4|pages=231–255|doi=10.1080/0270319X.2016.1239484|s2cid=151474152}}
• The Samaritans revolt and are defeated; the Church of the Nativity is burnt down during the Rebellion.{{Cite news|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/endangered-site-church-of-the-nativity-bethlehem-51647344/|title=Endangered Site: Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem|last=Tucker|first=Abigail|date=March 2009|work=Smithsonian Magazine|access-date=29 January 2019}}

• Queen Amalasuntha receives a delegation sent by a council of Gothic nobles urging that she have her son Athalaric, now 13, taught an education in the Roman tradition—not by elderly schoolmasters, but by men who will teach him to "ride, fence, and to be toughened, not to be turned into a bookworm".{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ndeDi_fwq0C&q=Athalaric+education&pg=PA157|title=People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554|last=Amory|first=Patrick|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1997|isbn=9780521526357|location=Cambridge|pages=155–158|language=en}}

• Al-Harith ibn Jabalah becomes the fifth king of the Ghassanids. He helps the Byzantines to suppress the wide-scale Samaritan Revolt.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zpz7U8b8vxMC&q=Al-Harith+ibn+Jabalah+529&pg=PA117|title=On the Historical Development of the Liturgy|last=Baumstark|first=Anton|publisher=Liturgical Press|year=2011|isbn=9780814660966|pages=117|language=en}}

• February 25 – Kʼan Joy Chitam I becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque what is now the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, ending an interregnum of a little over four years, and reigns until his death in 565.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bLejw04X7jMC&q=K%27an+Joy+Chitam+I+529&pg=PA161|title=Janaab' Pakal of Palenque: Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler|last1=Tiesler|first1=Vera|last2=Cucina|first2=Andrea|publisher=University of Arizona Press|year=2006|isbn=9780816525102|location=Tucson, AZ|pages=161|language=en}}

• Rudravarman is granted investiture by China, as the first king of the fourth dynasty of Champa (modern Vietnam).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XD9dDwAAQBAJ&q=Rudravarman+529&pg=PA35|title=History of South East Asia|last=Hall|first=Daniel George Edward|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|year=1981|isbn=9781349165216|location=London and Basingstoke|pages=35|language=en|orig-year=1955}}

• The Academy, originally founded at Athens by Plato around 387 BC, closes down by order of Justinian I, on charges of un-Christian activity. Many of the school's professors emigrate to Persia and Syria.{{Cite journal|last=Blumenthal|first=Henry J.|date=1978|title=529 and Its Sequel: What Happened to the Academy?|journal=Byzantion|volume=48|issue=2|pages=369–385|jstor=44171310}}

• The Benedictine Order is established at Monte Cassino near Naples by Benedict of Nursia, who founds a monastery and formulates for his monks strict rules in the "Regula Benedicti".{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GfC0TDkJJNgC&q=benedictine|title=Encyclopedia of Monasticism: A-L|last1=Johnston|first1=William M.|last2=Renkin|first2=Claire|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2000|isbn=9781579580902|location=Chicago|pages=128–143|language=en}}
• The Canons of the Council of Orange are established, approving the Augustinian doctrine of sin and grace over Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism, but without Augustine's absolute predestination.{{Cite web|url=https://davidwesterfield.net/2006/04/what-was-significant-about-the-council-of-orange/|title=What Was Significant About the Council of Orange?|last=Westerfield|first=David|date=28 April 2006|website=David Westerfield|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-29}}

• Wen Xuan Di, emperor of Northern Qi (d. 559){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0oCsBwAAQBAJ&q=Emperor+Wenxuan+Gao+Yang+529&pg=PA314|title=Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E. - 618 C.E|last1=Lee|first1=Lily Xiao Hong|last2=Stefanowska|first2=A. D.|last3=Wiles|first3=Sue|publisher=Routledge|year=2015|isbn=9781317475910|location=Abingdon & New York|pages=314|language=en|orig-year=2007}}

• Baderic, king of the Thuringii (b. c. 480){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bSRLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA86|title=A Short History of France|last=Duruy|first=Victor|publisher=J. M. Dent|year=1918|pages=86|language=en}}
• Theodosius the Cenobiarch, monk and founder of the Monastery of St. Theodosius{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K59oD_a7PqkC&q=Cenobiarch|title=A Cloud of Witnesses: Saints and Martyrs from the Holy Land|last=Khoury|first=Bishop Demetri|publisher=AuthorHouse|year=2008|isbn=9781434394408|location=Bloomington, Indiana|pages=256|language=en}}
• Yuan Hao, imperial prince of Northern Wei{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OWLPBAAAQBAJ&q=yuan+hao+northern+wei&pg=PA1827|title=Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol.3 & 4): A Reference Guide, Part Three & Four|last1=Knechtges|first1=David R.|last2=Chang|first2=Taiping|publisher=BRILL|year=2014|isbn=9789004271852|volume=III|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=1827|language=en}}

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