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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 495 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 495 CDXCV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1248 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5245 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 416–417 |
| Bengali calendar | −98 |
| Berber calendar | 1445 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1039 |
| Burmese calendar | −143 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6003–6004 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3192 or 2985 — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3193 or 2986 |
| Coptic calendar | 211–212 |
| Discordian calendar | 1661 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 487–488 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4255–4256 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 551–552 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 416–417 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3595–3596 |
| Holocene calendar | 10495 |
| Iranian calendar | 127 BP – 126 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 131 BH – 130 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 381–382 |
| Julian calendar | 495 CDXCV |
| Korean calendar | 2828 |
| Minguo calendar | 1417 before ROC 民前1417年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −973 |
| Seleucid era | 806/807 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1037–1038 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 621 or 240 or −532 — to — 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 622 or 241 or −531 |
Year 495 (CDXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Viator without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1248 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 495 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
By place
Britannia
- Cerdic of Wessex and his son, Cynric, land somewhere on the south coast, probably near the Hampshire-Dorset border. Their followers establish the beginnings of the Kingdom of Wessex.
China
- Emperor Xiao Wen Di of Northern Wei builds the Shaolin Monastery (Henan) for the monk Batuo (for alternate founding date see 477 or 497).
By topic
Religion
- Pope Gelasius I gains support from Italian bishops, in his assertion that the spiritual power of the papacy is superior to the emperor's temporal authority. Like his predecessors, the pope opposes the Byzantine emperor Anastasius I's efforts to establish Miaphysite doctrine.
Births
- Queen Amalasuntha of the Ostrogoths (approximate date)
- King Chlodomer of the Franks (d. 524)
- Finnian of Moville, Irish bishop (d. 589)
- Guntheuc, princess of Burgundy (d. c. 532)
- Husi Chun, general of Northern Wei (d. 537)
- King Theudebert I of Austrasia (approximate date)