Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

December 29

December 29 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 534. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 534

    Event That Shaped History

    Constantinople Law & Civic Life High

    The Revised Justinian Code Takes Legal Effect

    On December 29, AD 534, the revised Codex Justinianus became legally effective, replacing the first edition and consolidating imperial constitutions in the form that would shape later Byzantine law.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • Constitutio Cordi nobis and the Codex repetitae praelectionis

    Modern scholarship

    • Modern legal histories of the Codex Justinianus

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