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Calendar overview 508
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| 508 in other calendars | |
| Ethiopian calendar | 500/501 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1051/52 (southern Buddhism); 1050/51 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 53rd (54th) cycle
Year of the earth-rat戊子 ( at the beginning of the year fire-pig 丁亥) |
| Jewish calendar | 4268/69 (September 10-11) |
| Coptic calendar | 224/225 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCCLXI (1261)
Diocletian's era : 224/225 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 818/819 (April)
Syria: 819/820 (October) |
| Spanish era | 546 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 564/565 (turn of the year April) |
Events
- In place of Soissons, Paris becomes the capital of the Frankish Empire under Clovis I.
- Clovis receives from his allies, the Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I the title of Patricius awarded.
- The king of the Ostrogoths , Theodoric the Great , intervenes belatedly in the clashes in southern Gaul after the battle of Vouillé . Clovis had been able to win the Burgundies as allies by agreeing to Arles and Narbonne . Aquitaine was lost to the Goths, but at least Septimania with Narbonne was able to be preserved in the Visigothic Empire, so that the Franks had no access to the Mediterranean, while Theodoric added Provence east of the Rhone, including Arles and Avignon, to his Ostrogothic Empire.
- According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Cerdic , Anglo-Saxon King of Wessex defeated the Celts under King Natanleod with his son Cynric at Natanleaga.
- around 508: The Lombards destroy the Heruler Empire under Rudolf and rise to become the strongest power on the central Danube .