518

Year 518 (DXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paulus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1271 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 518 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:
518 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar518
DXVIII
Ab urbe condita1271
Assyrian calendar5268
Balinese saka calendar439–440
Bengali calendar−75
Berber calendar1468
Buddhist calendar1062
Burmese calendar−120
Byzantine calendar6026–6027
Chinese calendar丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
3214 or 3154
     to 
戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
3215 or 3155
Coptic calendar234–235
Discordian calendar1684
Ethiopian calendar510–511
Hebrew calendar4278–4279
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat574–575
 - Shaka Samvat439–440
 - Kali Yuga3618–3619
Holocene calendar10518
Iranian calendar104 BP – 103 BP
Islamic calendar107 BH – 106 BH
Javanese calendar405–406
Julian calendar518
DXVIII
Korean calendar2851
Minguo calendar1394 before ROC
民前1394年
Nanakshahi calendar−950
Seleucid era829/830 AG
Thai solar calendar1060–1061
Tibetan calendar阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
644 or 263 or −509
     to 
阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
645 or 264 or −508
Emperor Justin I (518–527)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • July 9 Emperor Anastasius I dies childless at Constantinople, age 88, after a 27-year reign in which he has abolished the sale of offices, reformed taxation, and perfected the empire's monetary system, but antagonized some with his heretical Monophysite religious policies. He is succeeded by Justin (Flavius Justinus), his comes excubitorum, commander of the palace guard. After his death, he leaves the imperial treasury richer by 23,000,000 solidi or 320,000 pounds of gold.[1]
  • Justin I founds the Justinian Dynasty and makes his nephew Flavius Petrus Sabbatius (later Justinian I) his trusted advisor. He becomes the emperor's close confidant and acts possibly as regent.[2] Theocritus, candidate to the throne, is accused of a conspiracy and executed.

Balkans

Arabia

  • Jabalah IV becomes the king of the Ghassanids. He invades Palestine, but is defeated by a Byzantine army under general (dux) Romanus.[3][4]

Religion

Births

  • Matasuntha, queen of the Ostrogoths (approximate date)
  • Mungo, Brythonic apostle and saint (approximate date)
  • Yōmei, emperor of Japan (d. 587)

Deaths

  • July 9 Anastasius I Dicorus, Byzantine emperor
  • July Theocritus, Byzantine pretender
  • Flavian II, patriarch of Antioch
  • Gao, Chinese empress of Northern Wei
  • Moninne of Killeavy, one of Ireland's early women saints (approximate date)
  • Sanghapala, Mon-Khmer monk (b. 506)
  • Tonantius Ferreolus, Gallo-Roman senator (approximate date)
  • Yu Zhong, official and regent of Northern Wei (b. 452)

References

  1. P. Brown, The world of late antiquity, W.W. Norton and Co. 1971 (p. 147)
  2. Moorhead (1994), p. 21-22, with a reference to Procopius, Secret History 8.3.
  3. Martindale 1980, p. 489
  4. Shahîd 1989, p. 121, 125–127; Greatrex & Lieu 2002, p. 51
Bibliography
  • Martindale, John R., ed. (1980). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume II, AD 395–527. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-20159-4.
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