500

events

politics and world happening

• battle of Dijon: The Franconia king Chlodwig I. of the Geneva Unterkönigs Godegisel intervenes against the upper king Gundobad residing in Lyon , its troops in Burgund to favourin the battle to be struck, but Gundobad succeeds the escape to Avignon, where he agrees upon the payment of tributes with Chlodwig, so that this recognizes him as a king
• around 500: Battle of Mons Badonicus, in that the novel whether ritesa victory against the fishing rod Saxonia succeeds, whose advance in central England into the 570er is stopped years. History quotation, exact year and exact place of the battle are disputed; the 490er most probably applies year (at the latest 503) as well as the area around Bath; the fishing rod Saxonia might have stated Aelle of Sussex, later sources associates on British page Artus with the battle
• around 500: Establishment of the anglo-saxon Kingdom of Essex
• around 500: Propagation the Saxonias direction cathedral country
• around 500: Herminafried becomes king of the Thüringer
• Around 500: The philosophical writings (pseudo) of the Dionysius Areopagita written
• around 500: The Kha - peoples settle the country of today's Laos
• around 500: The Wolof and Serer settle the area at Senegal
• around 500: Beginning of the Eskimo culture of Thule
• Establishment of the Maya city Uxmal
• around 500: Second Germanic sound shift with separation fishing rod and dialects of Lower Saxony and down-Frankish of the alamannischen and Bavarian (see. make/maken)
• after 500: Expansion of the Slawen, which advance into areas of Eastern Europe given up by Teutons

born

• around 500: Belisar, Byzantine field gentleman († 565)
• around 500: Prokopios of Caesarea, Byzantine historian († around 562)
• around 500: Theodora I., Wife of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. († 548)
• around 500: Theudebert I., merowingischer king († 547/548)
• around 500: Vigilius, Pope († 555)
• around 500: Flavius Cresconius Corippus, lateantique poet († around 570)