Alternate uses, see Number 496

Decades: 440s 450s 460s 470s 480s - 490s - 500s 510s 520s 530s 540s

Years: 491 492 493 494 495 - 496 - 497 498 499 500 501

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• Battle of Tolbiac; Clovis I accepts Catholic baptism at Reims.
• Pope Anastasius II succeeds Gelasius I.
• Possible date for the Battle of Mons Badonicus: Romano-British and Celts led by Arthur defeat an Anglo-Saxon army that may have been led by the bretwalda Aelle of Sussex (the battle may have taken place in AD 500)
• The ruling Tuoba family in the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty change their family name to Yuan.
• Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I has Euphemius Patriarch of Constantinople deposed, and Macedonius II appointed as his successor. Euphemius is sent into exile.

• Gunthamund, king of the Vandals