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Representation of the apotheosis of Symmachus in the British Museum
Pope Symmachus dies.
514 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar 506/507
Buddhist calendar 1057/58 (southern Buddhism); 1056/57 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 53rd (54th) cycle

Year of the wood horse甲午 ( at the beginning of the year water snake 癸巳)

Jewish calendar 4274/75 (September 5-6)
Coptic calendar 230/231
Roman calendar ab urbe condita MCCLXVII (1267)

Diocletian's era : 230/231 (New Year November)

Seleucid era Babylon: 824/825 (April)

Syria: 825/826 (October)

Spanish era 552
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 570/571 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Ostrogoth Empire

Flavius ​​Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator

Cassiodorus , who made major efforts in the Ostrogothic kingdom of Theodoric to the reconciliation between Goths and Romans, becomes consul ordinarius in Rome.

Byzantine Empire

The revolt of the army master Vitalian against the Byzantine emperor Anastasios I reached its climax with the siege of the capital Constantinople and the capture of the senator and imperial nephew Flavius ​​Hypatius by the insurgents. However, Vitalian soon had to break off the siege unsuccessfully because the city turned out to be impregnable and the expected uproar within the city walls did not materialize.

British Islands

Cissa succeeds - possibly only according to legend - his late father Ælle as King of Sussex .

Asia

After Kaundinya Jayavarman's death , his son Rudravarman becomes ruler of the Southeast Asian Empire of Funan , which experienced one of the last political and cultural climaxes during his reign. Although even followers of the Mahayana - Buddhism leads, like his father, the state cult of the Hindu deity Shiva on.

religion

Bishop of Rome

Pope Hormisdas, artist from the 7th century.

Symmachus , who died on July 19, was followed the next day by his archdeacon Hormisdas as Bishop of Rome. One of the first concerns of the new Pope is to wipe out the last traces of the Laurentian schism from Rome and to bring the remaining apostates back to the church. The greater part of his pontificate then deals with the healing of the Akakian schism , the first fundamental schism between Eastern and Western Christianity that has existed since 484 , which is based on the excommunication of Akakios of Constantinople , who died in 489 , on the charge of Nestorianism .

Order of knights

Michele II. Angelos Flavius ​​Komnenos , Prince of Cilicia and Macedonia, becomes Grand Master of the Order of Constantine . He succeeds Alexios II. Angelos Flavius ​​Komnenos .

Died