510
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Heads of State
Year of the Metal Tiger庚寅(at the beginning of Earth Buffalo己丑)
Era of Diocletian: 226/227 ( year November )
Syria: 821/822 (October)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Europe
- Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, Boëthius appointed consul.
- Wacho murdered his uncle Tato and makes himself king of the Lombards. A little later he sends troops across the Danube and conquered Pannonia to Drava.
- Between the Gauts and the Svea in Sweden today there is a war.
Asia
- Bhanugupta, ruler of the northern Indian Gupta Empire loses a battle against the Hephtaliten under Toramana and must flee to Bengal; the Hephtaliten win Kashmir and Punjab, the Gupta Empire begins to fall apart.
Science and Technology
- At 510: The Indian mathematician and astronomer Aryabhata developed its own number system, the so-called Aryabhata code. Numbers are referred to therein by syllables.
Born
Died
- Tato, Lombard Duke
- To 510: Hashim ibn ʿ Abd Manaf, great-grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad