Centuries:	5th century · 6th century · 7th century
Decades:	470s 480s 490s 500s 510s 520s 530s
Years:	503 504 505 506 507 508 509

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Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

506 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	506 DVI
Ab urbe condita	1259
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1338 – -1337
Bengali calendar	-87
Berber calendar	1456
Buddhist calendar	1050
Burmese calendar	-132
Byzantine calendar	6014 – 6015
Chinese calendar	乙酉年十一月廿一日 (3142/3202-11-21) — to — 丙戌年十二月初一日 (3143/3203-12-1)
Coptic calendar	222 – 223
Ethiopian calendar	498 – 499
Hebrew calendar	4266 – 4267
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	561 – 562
- Shaka Samvat	428 – 429
- Kali Yuga	3607 – 3608
Holocene calendar	10506
Iranian calendar	116 BP – 115 BP
Islamic calendar	120 BH – 119 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2839
Thai solar calendar	1049
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[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Byzantine Empire

• The Byzantine Empire and Persia accept a peace agreement based on status quo.
• The city of Dara in Mesopotamia is fortified by emperor Anastasius I as a frontier against Persia.

[edit] By topic

[edit] Arts and sciences

• The Breviary of Alaric, a collection of Roman law, is compiled.

[edit] Religion

• September 10—The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.

[edit] Fiction

• The time that King Arthur is supposed to take place.

[edit] Births

• Sanghapala, Mon-Khmer monk (d. 518)
• Wei Shou
• Empress Zhang Yao'er

[edit] Deaths