507
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This article is about the year 507. For the number, see 507 (number). For the area code, see Area code 507.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 470s 480s 490s – 500s – 510s 520s 530s |
| Years: | 504 505 506 – 507 – 508 509 510 |
| 507 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 507 DVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1260 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5257 |
| Bengali calendar | −86 |
| Berber calendar | 1457 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1051 |
| Burmese calendar | −131 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6015–6016 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3203 or 3143 — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3204 or 3144 |
| Coptic calendar | 223–224 |
| Discordian calendar | 1673 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 499–500 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4267–4268 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 563–564 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 429–430 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3608–3609 |
| Holocene calendar | 10507 |
| Iranian calendar | 115 BP – 114 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 119 BH – 118 BH |
| Julian calendar | 507 DVII |
| Korean calendar | 2840 |
| Minguo calendar | 1405 before ROC 民前1405年 |
| Seleucid era | 818/819 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1049–1050 |
Year 507 (DVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Anastasius and Venantius (or, less frequently, year 1260 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 507 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[edit]
By place[edit]
Byzantine Empire[edit]
- Emperor Anastasius I completes the strategic fortress at Dara (Northern Mesopotamia). He raises the city walls to 30 feet (10 m) to disregard of Persian protests. Alarmed by the depredations of Slavs and Bulgars in Thrace, he builds the Anastasian Wall from the Black Sea to Propontis, across the narrow peninsula near Constantinople (modern Turkey).[1]
Europe[edit]
- Battle of Vouillé: A Frankish army under command of Clovis I invades the Visigothic Kingdom and defeats king Alaric II near Poitiers. The Visigoths refuse to be enslaved and retreat to Septimania (Southern Gaul). Clovis annexes Aquitania and captures Toulouse.
- Gesalec succeeds his father Alaric II as king of the Visigoths. He establishes his residence at Narbonne and is supported by an alliance with the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great.
- Clovis I dictates the Salic Law (Code of the Barbaric Laws) to the Franks. A written codification of civil law for citizens of the Frankish Kingdom.
- Hermanafrid, king of the Thuringii, marries Amalaberga. He begins his rule, shared with his brothers Baderic and Bertachar.
- Wooden coffins and wooden tools are used in the burial places of the Alemanni.
Asia[edit]
- The town of Guilin, China, is renamed Guizhou.
- Keitai becomes the 26th emperor of Japan (approximate date).
- The first and smaller of the two Buddhas of Bamyan is erected in central Afghanistan.[2]
Mesoamerica[edit]
Births[edit]
- John of Ephesus, Armenian bishop (approximate date)
- Wen Di, emperor of Western Wei (d. 551)
- Xiao Zhuang Di, emperor of Northern Wei (d. 531)
- Yuwen Tai, general of Western Wei (d. 556)
Deaths[edit]
- Alaric II, king of the Visigoths
- Aprus, bishop of Toul
- Domangart Réti, king of Dál Riata (modern Scotland)
- Yu, empress of Northern Wei (b. 488)
References[edit]
- ^ Essential Histories, Rome at War AD 293–696 (p. 52). Michael Whitby, 2002. ISBN 1-84176-359-4
- ^ Cohen, Roger. "Return to Bamiyan", The New York Times, October 29, 2007. Accessed October 29, 2007.
