508
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This article is about the year 508. For the number, see 508 (number). For other uses, see 508 (disambiguation).
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 5th century β 6th century β 7th century |
Decades: | 470s 480s 490s β 500s β 510s 520s 530s |
Years: | 505 506 507 β 508 β 509 510 511 |
508 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders β Sovereign states | |
Birth and death categories | |
Births β Deaths | |
Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
Establishments β Disestablishments | |
Gregorian calendar | 508 DVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 1261 |
Armenian calendar | N/A |
Assyrian calendar | 5258 |
BahΓ‘'Γ calendar | β1336 β β1335 |
Bengali calendar | β85 |
Berber calendar | 1458 |
English Regnal year | N/A |
Buddhist calendar | 1052 |
Burmese calendar | β130 |
Byzantine calendar | 6016β6017 |
Chinese calendar | δΈδΊ₯εΉ΄ (Fire Pig) 3204 or 3144 β to β ζεεΉ΄ (Earth Rat) 3205 or 3145 |
Coptic calendar | 224β225 |
Discordian calendar | 1674 |
Ethiopian calendar | 500β501 |
Hebrew calendar | 4268β4269 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 564β565 |
- Shaka Samvat | 430β431 |
- Kali Yuga | 3609β3610 |
Holocene calendar | 10508 |
Igbo calendar | β492 β β491 |
Iranian calendar | 114 BP β 113 BP |
Islamic calendar | 118 BH β 117 BH |
Japanese calendar | N/A |
Juche calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | 508 DVIII |
Korean calendar | 2841 |
Minguo calendar | 1404 before ROC ζ°ε1404εΉ΄ |
Thai solar calendar | 1051 |
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Year 508 (DVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Venantius and Celer (or, less frequently, year 1261 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 508 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Emperor Anastasius I formally recognizes Clovis I of the Salian Franks as ruler of Gaul. He sends a Byzantine fleet of 100 warships to raid the coasts of Italy.[1]
Britannia
- Battle of Netley: King Cerdic of Wessex moves with an Anglo-Saxon army inland and defeats the British king, Nudd-Lludd (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).[2]
- Winter β All the rivers in England are frozen for more than two months.[3]
Europe
- King Clovis I fails in an effort to take the walled city of Carcassonne (Southern Gaul). He establishes Paris (Lutetia) as his capital and makes Roman Catholicism the official religion of the Frankish Kingdom.
- King Theodoric the Great sends an Ostrogoth army, led by his sword-bearer Theudis, and drives the Franks out of Provence and recovers Septimania (Languedoc) from the Visigoths.
Births
- Xiao Ji, prince of the Liang Dynasty (d. 553)
- Yuan Di, emperor of the Liang Dynasty (d. 555)
Deaths
- Geraint, king of Dumnonia (approximate date)
- Yuan Xie, prince of the Northern Wei Dynasty
- YujiulΓΌ Futu, ruler (khan) of the Rouran (Mongolia)
References
- β Pryor & Jeffreys 2006, p. 13
- β Hampshire County Council
- β Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.
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