496

Year 496 (CDXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) 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.

This article is about the year 496. For the number, see 496 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	470s 480s 490s 500s 510s
Years:	493 494 495 496 497 498 499

496 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	496 CDXCVI
Ab urbe condita	1249
Assyrian calendar	5246
Balinese saka calendar	417–418
Bengali calendar	−97
Berber calendar	1446
Buddhist calendar	1040
Burmese calendar	−142
Byzantine calendar	6004–6005
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3193 or 2986     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3194 or 2987
Coptic calendar	212–213
Discordian calendar	1662
Ethiopian calendar	488–489
Hebrew calendar	4256–4257
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	552–553
- Shaka Samvat	417–418
- Kali Yuga	3596–3597
Holocene calendar	10496
Iranian calendar	126 BP – 125 BP
Islamic calendar	130 BH – 129 BH
Javanese calendar	382–383
Julian calendar	496 CDXCVI
Korean calendar	2829
Minguo calendar	1416 before ROC 民前1416年
Nanakshahi calendar	−972
Seleucid era	807/808 AG
Thai solar calendar	1038–1039
Tibetan calendar	阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 622 or 241 or −531     — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 623 or 242 or −530

King Clovis I leading the Franks to victory, by Ary Scheffer (1881)

Battle of Tolbiac (496)

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}
• 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[1]

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.^{[citation needed]}
• Emperor Xiao Wen Di of Northern Wei starts the Sinicization process, by changing his clan name to the Han Chinese surname Yuan.^{[citation needed]}

By topic

Religion

• November 21 – Gelasius I dies after a 4-year reign,^[2] 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.^[2]
• Athanasius, Coptic Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria
• Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia (b. 438).^[3]
• Gennadius of Massilia, priest and historian.^[4]
• Gibuld, king of the Alamanni
• Gunthamund, king of the Vandals and Alans

References

1. Wilhite, David E. (2017). Ancient African Christianity: An Introduction to a Unique Context and Tradition. London: Taylor & Francis. p. 275. ISBN 978-1-13512-142-6.
2. McBrien, Richard P. (1997). Lives of the Popes. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-06065-304-0.
3. Allen, Pauline; Neil, Bronwen (2013). Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 CE): A Survey of the Evidence from Episcopal Letters. Leiden: Brill. p. 24. ISBN 978-9-00425-482-4.
4. 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. Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers. 2014. p. 715. ISBN 978-1-61970-269-1.