515

Year 515 (DXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Florentius and Anthemius (or, less frequently, year 1268 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 515 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:
515 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar515
DXV
Ab urbe condita1268
Assyrian calendar5265
Balinese saka calendar436–437
Bengali calendar−78
Berber calendar1465
Buddhist calendar1059
Burmese calendar−123
Byzantine calendar6023–6024
Chinese calendar甲午年 (Wood Horse)
3211 or 3151
     to 
乙未年 (Wood Goat)
3212 or 3152
Coptic calendar231–232
Discordian calendar1681
Ethiopian calendar507–508
Hebrew calendar4275–4276
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat571–572
 - Shaka Samvat436–437
 - Kali Yuga3615–3616
Holocene calendar10515
Iranian calendar107 BP – 106 BP
Islamic calendar110 BH – 109 BH
Javanese calendar402–403
Julian calendar515
DXV
Korean calendar2848
Minguo calendar1397 before ROC
民前1397年
Nanakshahi calendar−953
Seleucid era826/827 AG
Thai solar calendar1057–1058
Tibetan calendar阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
641 or 260 or −512
     to 
阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
642 or 261 or −511
Empress Ariadne (c. 450–515)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Autumn Revolt of Vitalian: Byzantine general (magister militum) Vitalian mobilises his army, and marches again towards Constantinople. He captures the suburb of Sycae (modern Turkey) across the Golden Horn, and encamps there.
  • Emperor Anastasius I gives Marinus, former praetorian prefect of the East, command over the Byzantine army.[1] He defeats the rebel fleet at the harbor entrance, using a sulfur-based chemical substance, similar to the later Greek fire.
  • Marinus lands with an army on the shore of Sycae and defeats the rebels. Disheartened by the losses suffered, Vitalian flees north under cover of the night.[2]
  • As a sign of his victory, Anastasius I leads a procession to Sosthenion, and attends a service of thanks at the local church dedicated to the Archangel Michael.[3]
  • Empress Ariadne, wife of Emperor Anastasius I, dies at Constantinople and is buried in the Church of the Holy Apostles.

Europe

Religion

  • The St. Maurice's Abbey (Switzerland) is founded by Sigismund of Burgundy. He sets up five groups of monks to whom he entrusts the liturgy of the praise of God.[4]

Births

  • Approximate date Cainnech of Aghaboe, Irish abbot and saint (d. 600)
  • Hulü Guang, general of Northern Qi (d. 572)
  • Yuwen Hu, regent of Northern Zhou (d. 572)

Deaths

  • Ariadne, Byzantine empress
  • Euphemius, patriarch of Constantinople
  • Gao Zhao, high official of Northern Wei
  • Xuan Wu Di, emperor of Northern Wei (b. 483)

References

  1. Bury 1958a, p. 451
  2. Bury 1958a, p. 451-452; Cameron, Ward-Perkins & Whitby 2000, pp. 57, 294
  3. Bury 1958a, p. 452
  4. "Abbaye de Saint-Maurice - Accueil > Bienvenue > English". Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
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