510s

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades: 480s 490s 500s – 510s – 520s 530s 540s
Years: 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519
Categories: Births – Deaths – Architecture
Establishments – Disestablishments

The 510s was a decade that began on 1 January 510 and ended on 31 December 519.

Events

  • The convent of Saint-Césaire is built in Arles.
  • 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 island nation of Usan-guk is conquered by the Korean Silla Dynasty general Lee Sabu.
  • Earliest known dated text in the Arabic alphabet, at Zebed in Syria
  • The Revolt of Vitalian is put down by forces loyal to Byzantine emperor Anastasius I

Births

Deaths

  • Gao Zhao
  • Xuan Wu Di, ruler of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty
  • Euphemius, deposed Patriarch of Constantinople