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| Years: 508 509 510 511 - 512 - 513 514 515 516 | |
| Decades: 480s 490s 500s - 510s - 520s 530s 540s | |
| Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century | |
Events
- Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Anastasius I ends a period of moderate ecclestical policy, and starts strongly favoring his own monophysitist beliefs.
- Flavian II, Patriarch of Antioch, is deposed and replaced with Severus.
- The Liancourt Rocks become a protectorate of the Korean Silla Dynasty.
- First appearance of a text in the Arabic alphabet
Deaths