520
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This article is about the year 520. For the number, see 520 (number). For other uses, see 520 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 490s 500s 510s – 520s – 530s 540s 550s |
| Years: | 517 518 519 – 520 – 521 522 523 |
| 520 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 520 DXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1273 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 5270 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1324–-1323 |
| Bengali calendar | -73 |
| Berber calendar | 1470 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1064 |
| Burmese calendar | -118 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6028–6029 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年十一月廿六日 (3156/3216-11-26) — to —
庚子年十二月初七日(3157/3217-12-7) |
| Coptic calendar | 236–237 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 512–513 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4280–4281 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 576–577 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 442–443 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3621–3622 |
| Holocene calendar | 10520 |
| Iranian calendar | 102 BP – 101 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 105 BH – 104 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2853 |
| Minguo calendar | 1392 before ROC 民前1392年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1063 |
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Year 520 (DXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rusticus and Vitalianus (or, less frequently, year 1273 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 520 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
- Ostrogothic ruler Theodoric the Great builds the Mausoleum of Theodoric as his future tomb in Ravenna.
- The kingdom of East Anglia is formed (approximate date).
- The great Latin grammarian Priscian writes his Institutiones grammaticae.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- February 20 – Epiphanius is elected Patriarch of Constantinople.
- Bodhidharma arrives in China.
- The construction of Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, is started (approximate date).
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 19 – John of Cappadocia, Patriarch of Constantinople
- July – Vitalian, general and consul for the year, is murdered in the imperial palace of Constantinople
- Zu Geng
