503

Year 503 (DIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Volusianus and Dixicrates (or, less frequently, year 1256 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 503 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:
503 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar503
DIII
Ab urbe condita1256
Assyrian calendar5253
Balinese saka calendar424–425
Bengali calendar−90
Berber calendar1453
Buddhist calendar1047
Burmese calendar−135
Byzantine calendar6011–6012
Chinese calendar壬午年 (Water Horse)
3199 or 3139
     to 
癸未年 (Water Goat)
3200 or 3140
Coptic calendar219–220
Discordian calendar1669
Ethiopian calendar495–496
Hebrew calendar4263–4264
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat559–560
 - Shaka Samvat424–425
 - Kali Yuga3603–3604
Holocene calendar10503
Iranian calendar119 BP – 118 BP
Islamic calendar123 BH – 122 BH
Javanese calendar389–390
Julian calendar503
DIII
Korean calendar2836
Minguo calendar1409 before ROC
民前1409年
Nanakshahi calendar−965
Seleucid era814/815 AG
Thai solar calendar1045–1046
Tibetan calendar阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
629 or 248 or −524
     to 
阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
630 or 249 or −523

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • War with Sassanid Persia: Emperor Anastasius I sends a Byzantine army (52,000 men) to Armenia, but is defeated. The Romans attempt an unsuccessful siege of the Persian-held city Amida, on the Tigris. King Kavadh I invades Osroene, and lays siege to the city of Edessa (Northern Mesopotamia).[1]
  • May Areobindus, Byzantine general (magister militum), is stationed as commander at Dara, with an army of 12,000 men to keep watch at the Persian stronghold of Nisibis (modern Turkey).

Palestine

  • Mundhir III, king of the Lakhmids (Arab Christians), raids Palaestina Salutaris and Arabia Petraea. He captures a large number of Romans.[2]

Europe

  • King Ernakh, third son of Attila the Hun, dies after a 34-year reign. He is succeeded by his two sons (Utigur and Kutrigur), who share the power with the unified Bulgars.[3]

Births

  • October 17 Lý Nam Đế, first emperor of Vietnam (d. 548)
  • December 2 Xiao Gang, later Emperor Jianwen of Liang, emperor of the Chinese Liang dynasty (killed 551)
  • Chen Baxian, later Emperor Wu of Chen, first emperor of the Chinese Chen dynasty (d. 559)

Deaths

  • Ernakh, king of the Huns

References

  1. Greatrex & Lieu 2002, pp. 69–71
  2. John Binns, Ascetics and ambassadors of Christ: the monasteries of Palestine, 314-631. p.113; Frank R. Trombley, J. W. Watt, The chronicle of pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (the margin) p.108; Cyril of Scythopolis, Life of John the Hesychast, p.211. 15-20
  3. Priscus. In Excerpta de legationibus. Ed. S. de Boor. Berolini, 1903, p. 586
Bibliography
  • Greatrex, Geoffrey; Lieu, Samuel N. C. (2002). The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (Part II, 363–630 AD). New York, New York and London, United Kingdom: Routledge (Taylor & Francis). ISBN 0-415-14687-9.
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