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Calendar overview 512
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| 512 in other calendars | |
| Ethiopian calendar | 504/505 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1055/56 (southern Buddhism); 1054/55 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 53rd (54th) cycle
Year of the water dragon壬辰 ( at the beginning of the year metal rabbit 辛卯) |
| Jewish calendar | 4272/73 (August 27-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 228/229 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCCLXV (1265)
Diocletian's era : 228/229 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 822/823 (April)
Syria: 823/824 (October) |
| Spanish era | 550 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 568/569 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and religion
Eastern Roman Empire
- The Eastern Roman emperor Anastasios I carried out an increasingly monophysite religious policy. The Patriarch of Antioch , Flavius II, is deposed with the support of the theologian Philoxenus of Mabbug and replaced by Severus .
- Areobindus is proclaimed anti -emperor by the people, but declares his loyalty to Anastasios the next day.
Lombards / Gepids
- around 512/515 : Wacho , dux of the Lombards , wed Austrigusa , a daughter of the Gepid King Turisind .
Franconian Empire
- The Franconian province of Rouergue falls to the Visigoths .
Kingdom of Kent
Science and culture
- History of Arabic script : The oldest surviving text in Arabic script is written in Syria .
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Dedicated image in the Vienna Dioscurides ( sheet 6 verso ): Princess Anicia Juliana flanked by the allegorical figures generosity and cleverness
- around 512: The Vienna Dioscurides is made for the Byzantine aristocrat Anicia Iuliana . It mainly contains texts by the doctor Pedanios Dioskurides and is provided with numerous pictures of plants, figurative paintings and zoological illustrations. The main part is an extensive herbal book .
religion
- Archbishop Caesarius of Arles , the Convent of St. John inaugurates in Arles , probably the first nuns monastery in Western Europe, and sets his sister Caesaria a first abbess.
Disasters
- May 23 : The earthquake between Yuanping and Dai in Shanxi Province in China during the time of the Northern Wei Dynasty claims 5,310 dead and 2,722 injured , according to the Weishu .
- The Vesuvius erupts. The residents concerned receive tax breaks from King Theodoric .
nature and environment
- June 29th : A total solar eclipse takes place in North Africa and Asia Minor .
Born
- Ciarán von Clonmacnoise , Irish clergyman, founder and first abbot of the Clonmacnoise monastery († 544 )
- Xian , Chinese nobles from the Li people († 602 )
- around 512: David of Menevia , Welsh bishop († 587 )
Died
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