518

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518 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

518 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	518 DXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1271
Assyrian calendar	5268
Bengali calendar	−75
Berber calendar	1468
Buddhist calendar	1062
Burmese calendar	−120
Byzantine calendar	6026–6027
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3214 or 3154     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3215 or 3155
Coptic calendar	234–235
Discordian calendar	1684
Ethiopian calendar	510–511
Hebrew calendar	4278–4279
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	574–575
- Shaka Samvat	439–440
- Kali Yuga	3618–3619
Holocene calendar	10518
Iranian calendar	104 BP – 103 BP
Islamic calendar	107 BH – 106 BH
Javanese calendar	405–406
Julian calendar	518 DXVIII
Korean calendar	2851
Minguo calendar	1394 before ROC 民前1394年
Nanakshahi calendar	−950
Seleucid era	829/830 AG
Thai solar calendar	1060–1061

Emperor Justin I (518–527)

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.

Events

By place

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

• An earthquake destroys the Illyrian (Macedonian) city of Scupi (later Skopje), in what once was the Roman province of Moesia Superior.

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]

By topic

Religion

• September 29 – Severus, patriarch of Antioch, is deposed by a synod for his Monophysitism. Paul the Jew is appointed to replace him.

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, Byzantine emperor
• 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)
• July – Theocritus, Byzantine pretender
• 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 & Morris (1980), p. 489
4. Shahîd 1989, p. 121, 125–127; Greatrex & Lieu 2002, p. 51