Years: 508 509 510 511 - 512 - 513 514 515 516

Decades: 480s 490s 500s - 510s - 520s 530s 540s

Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century

Events

• Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Anastasius I ends a period of moderate ecclestical policy, and starts strongly favoring his own monophysitist beliefs.
• Flavian II, Patriarch of Antioch, is deposed and replaced with Severus.
• The island nation of Usan-guk is conquered by the Korean Silla Dynasty general Lee Sabu .
• Earliest known dated text in the Arabic alphabet, at Zebed in Syria

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