507

This article is about the year 507. For the area code, see Area code 507.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	480s 490s 500s 510s 520s
Years:	504 505 506 507 508 509 510

507 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	507 DVII
Ab urbe condita	1260
Assyrian calendar	5257
Balinese saka calendar	428–429
Bengali calendar	−86
Berber calendar	1457
Buddhist calendar	1051
Burmese calendar	−131
Byzantine calendar	6015–6016
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3204 or 2997     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3205 or 2998
Coptic calendar	223–224
Discordian calendar	1673
Ethiopian calendar	499–500
Hebrew calendar	4267–4268
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	563–564
- Shaka Samvat	428–429
- Kali Yuga	3607–3608
Holocene calendar	10507
Iranian calendar	115 BP – 114 BP
Islamic calendar	119 BH – 118 BH
Javanese calendar	393–394
Julian calendar	507 DVII
Korean calendar	2840
Minguo calendar	1405 before ROC 民前1405年
Nanakshahi calendar	−961
Seleucid era	818/819 AG
Thai solar calendar	1049–1050
Tibetan calendar	阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 633 or 252 or −520     — to — 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 634 or 253 or −519

King Clovis I dictates the Salic Law

Year 507 (DVII) 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 Anastasius and Venantius (or, less frequently, year 1260 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 507 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 completes the strategic fortress at Dara (Northern Mesopotamia). He raises the city walls to 30 feet (10 m), disregarding Persian protests. Alarmed by the depredations of Slavs and Bulgars in Thrace, he builds the Anastasian Wall from the Black Sea to Propontis, across the narrow peninsula near Constantinople (modern Turkey).

Europe

• Battle of Vouillé: A Frankish army under command of Clovis I invades the Visigothic Kingdom, and defeats King Alaric II near Poitiers. The Visigoths refuse to be enslaved, and retreat to Septimania (Southern Gaul). Clovis annexes Aquitania, and captures Toulouse.
• Gesalec succeeds his father Alaric II as king of the Visigoths. He establishes his residence at Narbonne and is supported by an alliance with the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great.
• Clovis I dictates the Salic Law (Code of the Barbaric Laws) to the Franks (a written codification of civil law for citizens of the Frankish Kingdom).
• Hermanafrid, king of the Thuringii, marries Amalaberga. He begins his rule, shared with his brothers Baderic and Bertachar.
• Wooden coffins and wooden tools are used in the burial places of the Alemanni.

Asia

• The town of Guilin, China, is renamed Guizhou.
• Keitai becomes the 26th emperor of Japan (according to the Nihon Shoki).
• The first and smaller of the two Buddhas of Bamyan is erected in central Afghanistan.

Mesoamerica

• A Mayan altar with the head of the death god is built in Copán, Honduras.

Births

• John of Ephesus, Armenian bishop (approximate date)
• Wen Di, emperor of Western Wei (d. 551)
• Xiao Zhuang Di, emperor of Northern Wei (d. 531)
• Yuwen Tai, general of Western Wei (d. 556)

Deaths

• Alaric II, king of the Visigoths
• Aprus, bishop of Toul
• Domangart Réti, king of Dál Riata (modern Scotland)
• Yu, empress of Northern Wei (b. 488)