488

Year 488 (CDLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ecclesius and Sividius (or, less frequently, year 1241 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 488 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
488 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar488
CDLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita1241
Assyrian calendar5238
Balinese saka calendar409–410
Bengali calendar−105
Berber calendar1438
Buddhist calendar1032
Burmese calendar−150
Byzantine calendar5996–5997
Chinese calendar丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
3184 or 3124
     to 
戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
3185 or 3125
Coptic calendar204–205
Discordian calendar1654
Ethiopian calendar480–481
Hebrew calendar4248–4249
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat544–545
 - Shaka Samvat409–410
 - Kali Yuga3588–3589
Holocene calendar10488
Iranian calendar134 BP – 133 BP
Islamic calendar138 BH – 137 BH
Javanese calendar374–375
Julian calendar488
CDLXXXVIII
Korean calendar2821
Minguo calendar1424 before ROC
民前1424年
Nanakshahi calendar−980
Seleucid era799/800 AG
Thai solar calendar1030–1031
Tibetan calendar阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
614 or 233 or −539
     to 
阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
615 or 234 or −538

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Emperor Zeno regains power from the usurper Leontius and the Isaurian patrician Illus, who are captured and executed, ending a 4-year rebellion (see 484).
  • Zeno orders Theodoric the Great to overthrow his rival Odoacer, who has established himself as king of Italy (see 476). He marches with an Ostrogoth army to the West.

Europe

  • According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Hengist dies and is succeeded by his son Oisc as king of Kent.
  • The East Roman Emperor Zeno tasks the King of the Ostrogoths, Theoderic the Great, with conducting a campaign against Odoacer, whom he initially had recognised as his representative in Italy.
  • Among the peoples who live on the south bank of the Danube in Noricum ripense and who are de facto ruled by the Rugii, whose empire has its centre near Krems on the north bank, are Romii who had been evacuated earlier from Danube settlements above the River Enns. They include members of the Severin convent. Because some of the Rugii want to fight for East Rome against Odoacer, they destroy the Rugian Empire and allow the Romii to be evacuated to Italy by his brother, Hunulf, in order to prevent the re-establishment of the Rugian Empire by a surviving prince. The northern Danubian Limes of the Roman Empire are effectively abandoned. Even the relics of Severinus of Noricum are carried with them.
  • The Gepids capture Belgrade.

Persia

  • Kavadh I is crowned by the nobles, and succeeds his blind uncle Balash as the 19th king of Persia.

Asia

  • Ninken, adopted heir of Seinei, succeeds his brother Kenzō and becomes new emperor of Japan.

Religion

Births

  • He Di, emperor of Southern Qi (d. 502)
  • Senán mac Geirrcinn, Irish saint
  • Yu, empress of Northern Wei (d. 507)

Deaths

  • Balash, king of the Persian Empire
  • Hengest, leader of Kent
  • Illus, Byzantine general
  • Leontius, Byzantine usurper
  • Peter the Fuller, patriarch of Antioch

References

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