Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

December 30

December 30 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 533. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 533

    Event That Shaped History

    Constantinople Law & Civic Life High

    The Digest and Institutes Acquire the Force of Law

    On December 30, AD 533, Justinian’s Digest and Institutes entered into force. The date had been fixed in the promulgating constitution issued two weeks earlier.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • Constitutio Tanta / Codex Justinianus 1.17.2, section 23

    Modern scholarship

    • University of Wyoming Annotated Justinian Code

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