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::callout[type=note] 496 ::

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NOTOC Year 496 (CDXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paulus without colleague (or, less frequently, '*year 1249 *Ab urbe condita'''''). The denomination 496 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

Emperor Anastasius I has Euphemius, patriarch of Constantinople, deposed and excommunicated. He appoints Macedonius II as his successor. Euphemius is sent into exile.

Europe

Battle of Tolbiac: King Clovis I defeats the Alamanni at Zülpich (Germany). Gibuld, last king of the Alamanni, is killed in battle and the territory is incorporated into the Frankish Kingdom.
December 25 – Clovis I is baptized into the Catholic faith at Rheims, by Saint Remigius. The conversion strengthens the bonds between his Gallo-Roman subjects, led by their Catholic bishops.

Africa

Thrasamund succeeds his brother Gunthamund after his death, and becomes king of the Vandals. Under his rule, he resumes the persecution of the Catholics.

Asia

King Kavadh I of Persia is deposed and exiled to Susiana by his younger brother Djamasp. He is installed by the nobles to the Sassanid throne.
Emperor Xiao Wen Di of Northern Wei starts the Sinicization process, by changing his clan name to the Han Chinese surname Yuan.

By topic

Religion

November 21 – Gelasius I dies after a 4-year reign, and is succeeded by the Rome-born Anastasius II as the 50th pope.

Births

Childebert I, king of the Franks (d. 558)
Erzhu Tianguang, general of Northern Wei (d. 532)
Gao Huan, general of Northern Wei (d. 547)
Germain, bishop of Paris (d. 576)

Deaths

November 21 – Pope Gelasius I.
Athanasius, Coptic Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria
Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia (b. 438).
Gennadius of Massilia, priest and historian.
Gibuld, king of the Alamanni
Gunthamund, king of the Vandals and Alans

References

Wilhite, David E.. (2017). "Ancient African Christianity: An Introduction to a Unique Context and Tradition". Taylor & Francis.
McBrien, Richard P.. (1997). "Lives of the Popes". HarperSanFrancisco.
(2013). "Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 CE): A Survey of the Evidence from Episcopal Letters". Brill.
(2014). "A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D. with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies". Hendrickson Publishers.

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