516

This article is about the year 516. For the drug, see GW501516.

Year 516 (DXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Petrus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1269 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 516 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.

516 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	516 DXVI
Ab urbe condita	1269
Assyrian calendar	5266
Balinese saka calendar	437–438
Bengali calendar	−78 – −77
Berber calendar	1466
Buddhist calendar	1060
Burmese calendar	−122
Byzantine calendar	6024–6025
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3213 or 3006     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3214 or 3007
Coptic calendar	232–233
Discordian calendar	1682
Ethiopian calendar	508–509
Hebrew calendar	4276–4277
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	572–573
- Shaka Samvat	437–438
- Kali Yuga	3616–3617
Holocene calendar	10516
Iranian calendar	106 BP – 105 BP
Islamic calendar	109 BH – 108 BH
Javanese calendar	403–404
Julian calendar	516 DXVI
Korean calendar	2849
Minguo calendar	1396 before ROC 民前1396年
Nanakshahi calendar	−952
Seleucid era	827/828 AG
Thai solar calendar	1058–1059
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 642 or 261 or −511     — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 643 or 262 or −510

Events

By place

Europe

• Hygelac, king of the Geats (Sweden), raids the Lower Rhine, and is defeated by a Frankish force led by Theudebert (according to the "History of the Franks").^[1]
• King Gundobad of the Burgundians dies peacefully after a 43-year reign, and is succeeded by his eldest son Sigismund.

Vietnam

• Emperor Wu appoints Lý Tắc, a Jiaozhou's state official, as the governor. Lý Tắc then suppresses the rebellion of Lý Tông Lão, a former subordinate of Lý Nguyên Khải, the previous governor of Jiaozhou, then beheads him to bring his head to Jiankang, as an offering to the emperor.^[2]

By topic

Religion

• November 6 – The Council of Tarragona (modern Spain) is held.

Births

• Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths (d. 534)
• Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop (d. 546)

Deaths

• Gundobad, king of the Burgundians
• Hygelac, king of the Geats (approximate date)
• John, Coptic Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria
• Oisc, king of Kent (approximate date)