506

This article is about the year 506. For other uses, see 506 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	480s 490s 500s 510s 520s
Years:	503 504 505 506 507 508 509

506 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	506 DVI
Ab urbe condita	1259
Assyrian calendar	5256
Balinese saka calendar	427–428
Bengali calendar	−88 – −87
Berber calendar	1456
Buddhist calendar	1050
Burmese calendar	−132
Byzantine calendar	6014–6015
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3203 or 2996     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3204 or 2997
Coptic calendar	222–223
Discordian calendar	1672
Ethiopian calendar	498–499
Hebrew calendar	4266–4267
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	562–563
- Shaka Samvat	427–428
- Kali Yuga	3606–3607
Holocene calendar	10506
Iranian calendar	116 BP – 115 BP
Islamic calendar	120 BH – 119 BH
Javanese calendar	392–393
Julian calendar	506 DVI
Korean calendar	2839
Minguo calendar	1406 before ROC 民前1406年
Nanakshahi calendar	−962
Seleucid era	817/818 AG
Thai solar calendar	1048–1049
Tibetan calendar	阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 632 or 251 or −521     — to — 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 633 or 252 or −520

Year 506 (DVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Messala and Dagalaiphus (or, less frequently, year 1259 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 506 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• November – Emperor Anastasius I accepts a peace agreement with the Sasanian Empire (Persia), based on the status quo. He upgrades the fortifications at Batnae, Edessa and Amida (Northern Mesopotamia).[1]

Europe

• February 2 – King Alaric II issues the "Lex Romana Visigothorum" or Breviary of Alaric, an abstract of Roman laws and imperial decrees, compiled by a commission appointed to provide a law code for Alaric's Roman subjects. The "Lex Romana" will be the standard for justice in the Visigothic realm.
• The Visigoths capture the city of Dertosa in Catalonia. They arrest and execute the Roman usurper Peter, with his head being sent as a trophy to Saragossa (Spain).[2]

By topic

Religion

• September 10 – Council of Agde: The bishops of Visigothic Gaul under the presidency of Caesarius of Arles meet.
• Antipope Laurentius is persuaded by Theoderic the Great to resign his claim to the throne of Pope Symmachus, ending a schism in the Catholic Church; Laurentius then fasts until his death.[3][4]

Births

• Sanghapala, Mon-Khmer monk (d. 518)
• Soga no Iname, leader of the Soga clan (d. 570)
• Wei Shou, Chinese author (d. 572)
• Zhang Yao'er, empress of Chen dynasty China (d. 570)

Deaths

• Buretsu, emperor of Japan
• Peter, Roman usurper in Spain

References

1. Greatrex, Geoffrey; Lieu, Samuel N. C., eds. (2002). The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars: a narrative sourcebook. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. p. 74.
2. Collins, Roger (2004). Visigothic Spain, 409–711. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 0-631-18185-7.
3. Richards, Jeffrey (1979). The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. ISBN 0710000987.
4. Davies, Raymond, ed. (1989). The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis): the ancient biographies of the first ninety Roman bishops to AD 715. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0853232164.