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Calendar overview 515
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| 515 in other calendars | |
| Ethiopian calendar | 507/508 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1058/59 (southern Buddhism); 1057/58 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 53rd (54th) cycle
Year of the wood sheep乙未 ( at the beginning of the year wood horse 甲午) |
| Jewish calendar | 4275/76 (23/24 September) |
| Coptic calendar | 231/232 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MCCLXVIII (1268)
Diocletian's era : 231/232 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 825/826 (April)
Syria: 826/827 (October) |
| Spanish era | 553 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 571/572 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Europe
- The Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great married his daughter Amalasuntha to the Visigoth Eutharic .
- After years of fighting, the Eastern Roman emperor Anastasios I finally succeeds in defeating the rebel army of the Thracian Vitalian in front of Constantinople, whereupon he goes into hiding.
- to 512 /515: Wacho , Dux of Lombard , marries Austrigusa , a subsidiary of Gepidenkönigs Thurisind .
Asia
- around 515: Mihirakula follows his late father Toramana as ruler of the Alchon in Central Asia and Northwest India. Mihirakula, apparently a follower of Shiva , cracks down on followers of Buddhism and is portrayed extremely negatively in Indian sources.
Science, culture and religion
- September 22nd : The future King Sigismund , son of the Burgundian king Gundobad , instructs monks in Saint-Maurice to found the Abbey of Saint-Maurice above the grave of Saint Mauritius . Today it is the oldest continuously existing monastery in the West . In the course of this establishment, Murten was first mentioned as Hof Muratum , which was given to the newly founded monastery in a deed of donation.
- In an effort to end the Akakian schism between Eastern and Western Christianity, Pope Hormisdas sends a letter containing the formula Hormisdae to Constantinople to Patriarch Timotheos I.
- The Neoplatonic philosopher Damascius becomes the last head of the Platonic Academy in Athens .
Born
- around 515: Martin of Braga , Pannonian monk, bishop, pilgrim, missionary to the Suebi and Catholic saint († around 580 )
- around 515: Placidus of Subiaco , Benedictine monk, Catholic martyr and saint († around 545 )
- 515/ 520 : Arnegunde , Frankish nobleman, wife of King Clotaire I. († around 565 / 570 )
Died
- Ariadne , Eastern Roman Empress (* around 450 )
- Euphemios , Patriarch of Constantinople (* before 490)
- around 515: Toramana , ruler of the Alchon in Central Asia
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