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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Dragon庚辰(at the beginning of earth - hare己卯)

Era of Diocletian: 216/217 ( year November )

Syria: 811/812 ( year in October )

Events

  • Battle of Dijon: The Frankish King Clovis I engages in Burgundy in favor of the Geneva sub king Godegisel against the resident in Lyon Upper King Gundobad one whose troops are defeated in the battle, but manages Gundobad even the flight to Avignon, where he worked with Clovis payment agreed by tributes, so that it recognizes him as king.
  • In 500: Battle of Mons Badonicus, in the Romano-British victory against the Anglo-Saxons succeed in their advance is halted in central England to the 570er years. Historicity, exact year and exact location of the battle are controversial; most likely apply the 490er years (at least 503 ) and the area around Bath; the Anglo-Saxons may have led Aelle of Sussex, later sources associate with Arthur on the British side of the battle.
  • To 500: Anastasius I, Eastern Roman Emperor of Constantinople Opel, prevails over most of the Balkans, Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine, Tiele of Mesopotamia ( Mesopotamia ) and Egypt and Libya. This is his territory ( the Byzantine Empire ) is largely congruent with the later Ottoman Empire in its greatest dimension.
  • To 500: In northern Italy, the Codex argenteus, a valuable manuscript of Wulfilabibel arises.

Born

  • 500: Prokopios of Caesarea, Byzantine historian ( † about 562 )
  • 500: Theodora, wife of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I († 548)
  • To 500: Theudebert I, Merovingian king († 547/548 )
  • 500: Vigilius, Pope († 555 )
  • 500: Flavius ​​Cresconius Corippus, late antique poet († 570 )
  • 500: Nonnosus, Abbot of San Silvestre and Holy ( † about 532)

Died

  • To Chongzhi, Chinese mathematician and astronomer (* 429 )
  • 500: Gertrude of Brabant, martyr
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