513

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513 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

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Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

513 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	513 DXIII
Ab urbe condita	1266
Assyrian calendar	5263
Bengali calendar	−80
Berber calendar	1463
Buddhist calendar	1057
Burmese calendar	−125
Byzantine calendar	6021–6022
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3209 or 3149     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3210 or 3150
Coptic calendar	229–230
Discordian calendar	1679
Ethiopian calendar	505–506
Hebrew calendar	4273–4274
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	569–570
- Shaka Samvat	434–435
- Kali Yuga	3613–3614
Holocene calendar	10513
Iranian calendar	109 BP – 108 BP
Islamic calendar	112 BH – 111 BH
Javanese calendar	400–401
Julian calendar	513 DXIII
Korean calendar	2846
Minguo calendar	1399 before ROC 民前1399年
Nanakshahi calendar	−955
Seleucid era	824/825 AG
Thai solar calendar	1055–1056

Vigor becomes bishop of Bayeux (6th century)

Year 513 (DXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Probus and Clementinus (or, less frequently, year 1266 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 513 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.

Events

By place

Europe

• Revolt of Vitalian: Vitalian, Byzantine general, revolts against Emperor Anastasius I and conquers a large part of the Diocese of Thrace. He gains the support of the local people and assembles an army of 50,000–60,000 men.
• Anastasius I reduces taxes in the provinces of Bithynia and Asia, to prevent them from joining the rebellion. Vitalian marches to Constantinople and encamps at the suburb of Hebdomon (modern Turkey).
• Anastasius I sends an embassy under the former consul Patricius to start negotiations. Vitalian declares his aims: restoration of Chalcedonian Orthodoxy and the settling of the Thracian foederati.^[1]
• Vitalian accepts an agreement and returns with his army to Lower Moesia. After a few inconclusive skirmishes, Anastasius I sends a Byzantine army (80,000 men) under his nephew Hypatius.
• Vitalian defeats the Byzantines at Acris (Bulgaria), on the Black Sea coast. He attacks their fortified Laager in darkness, and in a crushing defeat kills a large part of the imperial army.

Persia

• King Kavadh I adopts the doctrine of the Mazdakites, and breaks the influence of the magnates' (nobility).^[2]
• The Jewish community revolts at Ctesiphon against Mazdakism, and establishes an independent Jewish kingdom that lasts for seven years.^[3]

By topic

Religion

• Vigor becomes bishop of Bayeux. He opposes paganism and founds a monastery later known as Saint-Vigor-le-Grand (Normandy).

Births

• An Ding Wang, emperor of Northern Wei (d. 532)

Deaths

• Gesalec, king of the Visigoths (approximate date)
• Shen Yue, Chinese historian and statesman (b. 441)

References

1. Martindale, Jones & Morris 1980, p. 840
2. Richard Nelson Frye, The History of Ancient Iran, Vol.3, (Beck'sche Verlangbuchhandlung, 1984), p. 323
3. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0003_0_01807.html