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 |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 470s 480s 490s – 500s – 510s 520s 530s |
| Years: | 505 506 507 – 508 – 509 510 511 |
| 508 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 508 DVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1261 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 5258 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1336–-1335 |
| Bengali calendar | -85 |
| Berber calendar | 1458 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1052 |
| Burmese calendar | -130 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6016–6017 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年十一月十三日 (3144/3204-11-13) — to —
戊子年十一月廿四日(3145/3205-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | 224–225 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 500–501 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4268–4269 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 564–565 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 430–431 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3609–3610 |
| Holocene calendar | 10508 |
| Iranian calendar | 114 BP – 113 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 118 BH – 117 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2841 |
| Minguo calendar | 1404 before ROC 民前1404年 |
| 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.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- Clovis I establishes Paris (Lutetia) as his capital. He also makes Roman Catholicism the official religion of the Frankish Kingdom.
- All the rivers in England are frozen for more than two months.[1]
[edit] Births
- Theodora, future wife of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (d. 548)
- Xiao Ji
- Emperor Yuan of Liang
[edit] Deaths
- Geraint Llyngesog ab Erbin, King of Dumnonia (historicity doubtful)
- Yuan Xie
- Yujiulü Futu
[edit] References
- ^ Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.
