503

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503
The Sassanids conquer Amida .
503 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar	495/496
Buddhist calendar	1046/47 (southern Buddhism); 1045/46 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	53rd (54th) cycle Year of the water sheep癸未 ( at the beginning of the year water horse 壬午)
Jewish calendar	4263/64 (September 7/8)
Coptic calendar	219/220
Roman calendar	from urbe condita MCCLVI (1256) Diocletian's era : 219/220 (New Year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 813/814 (April) Syria: 814/815 (October)
Spanish era	541
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	559/560 (turn of the year April)

Events

January: The Sassanids conquer Amida after a long siege. Then the third siege of the city by Roman troops begins . They manage to cut off the place completely from the outside world, so that epidemics and a severe famine occur. The sources even report cannibalism. Still, the siege lasted three years.
After initial willingness to negotiate, the Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasios I sends an army of 52,000 men in the Roman-Persian War against the Sassanid Great King Kavadh I. However, this is crushed and the defeat is blamed on Flavius Hypatius .

Clovis I , King of the Franks , and Alaric II , King of the Goths , sign a peace agreement in Amboise .

Possible year of the battle of Mons Badonicus ; see also 500 . According to the early sources, the advance of the Anglo-Saxons into Britain was halted for a number of years by their defeat on Mons Badonicus, although the Romano-British may also have suffered heavy losses.

Abraham von Kaschkar , founder of the revival of the Assyrian monastic movement, († 588 )