508

This article is about the year 508. For other uses, see 508 (disambiguation).

Year 508 (DVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Venantius and Celer (or, less frequently, year 1261 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 508 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.

508 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	508 DVIII
Ab urbe condita	1261
Assyrian calendar	5258
Balinese saka calendar	429–430
Bengali calendar	−86 – −85
Berber calendar	1458
Buddhist calendar	1052
Burmese calendar	−130
Byzantine calendar	6016–6017
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3205 or 2998     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3206 or 2999
Coptic calendar	224–225
Discordian calendar	1674
Ethiopian calendar	500–501
Hebrew calendar	4268–4269
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	564–565
- Shaka Samvat	429–430
- Kali Yuga	3608–3609
Holocene calendar	10508
Iranian calendar	114 BP – 113 BP
Islamic calendar	118 BH – 117 BH
Javanese calendar	394–395
Julian calendar	508 DVIII
Korean calendar	2841
Minguo calendar	1404 before ROC 民前1404年
Nanakshahi calendar	−960
Seleucid era	819/820 AG
Thai solar calendar	1050–1051
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Boar) 634 or 253 or −519     — to — ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Rat) 635 or 254 or −518

Map of Lutetia (18th century rendition)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Anastasius I formally recognizes Clovis I of the Salian Franks as ruler of Gaul. He sends a Byzantine fleet of 100 warships to raid the coasts of Italy.^[1]

Britannia

• Battle of Netley: King Cerdic of Wessex moves with an Anglo-Saxon army inland, and defeats the British king, Nudd-Lludd (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).^[2]
• Winter – All the rivers in England are frozen for more than two months.^[3]

Europe

• King Clovis I fails in an effort to take the walled city of Carcassonne (Southern Gaul). He establishes Paris (Lutetia) as his capital and gets baptized, making Roman Catholicism the official religion of the Kingdom of the Franks.
• King Theodoric the Great sends an Ostrogoth army, led by his sword-bearer Theudis, drives the Franks out of Provence, and recovers Septimania (Languedoc) from the Visigoths.

Births

• September 16 – Yuan Di, emperor of the Liang Dynasty (d. 555)
• Xiao Ji, prince of the Liang Dynasty (d. 553)

Deaths

• Geraint, king of Dumnonia (approximate date)
• Natanleod, king of Wales
• Yuan Xie, prince of the Northern Wei Dynasty
• Yujiulü Futu, ruler (khan) of the Rouran (Mongolia)