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495
The Chinese monastic order Shaolin is founded.
495 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar	487/488
Buddhist calendar	1038/39 (southern Buddhism); 1037/38 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	53rd (54th) cycle Year of the wood pig乙亥 ( at the beginning of the year wood dog 甲戌)
Jewish calendar	4255/56 (September 6-7)
Coptic calendar	211/212
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MCCXLVIII (1248) Diocletian's era : 211/212 (New Year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 805/806 (turn of the year April) Syria: 806/807 (New Year October)
Spanish era	533
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	551/552 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

• The later King Cerdic of Wessex lands in Hampshire and settles there.

Religion and society

• Foundation of the Shaolin monk order in the Chinese province of Henan

Born

• Chlodomer , Frankish King († 524 )
• around 495: Antonina , wife of the Eastern Roman general Belisarius († after 565)
• around 495: Chlothar I , Frankish King († 561 )
• around 495: Goar , Aquitaine priest († 575 )

Died

• around 495: Barsauma of Nisibis , Nestorian bishop and theologian