517

This article is about the year 517. For the number, see 517 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	480s  490s  500s  – 510s –  520s  530s  540s
Years:	514 515 516 – 517 – 518 519 520

517 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

517 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	517 DXVII
Ab urbe condita	1270
Assyrian calendar	5267
Bengali calendar	−76
Berber calendar	1467
Buddhist calendar	1061
Burmese calendar	−121
Byzantine calendar	6025–6026
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3213 or 3153     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3214 or 3154
Coptic calendar	233–234
Discordian calendar	1683
Ethiopian calendar	509–510
Hebrew calendar	4277–4278
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	573–574
- Shaka Samvat	439–440
- Kali Yuga	3618–3619
Holocene calendar	10517
Iranian calendar	105 BP – 104 BP
Islamic calendar	108 BH – 107 BH
Julian calendar	517 DXVII
Korean calendar	2850
Minguo calendar	1395 before ROC 民前1395年
Seleucid era	828/829 AG
Thai solar calendar	1059–1060

Statue of Aryabhata (476–550)

Year 517 (DXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Agapitus and Paulus (or, less frequently, year 1270 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 517 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

• King Sigismund is opposed by his son Sigeric and has him strangled. Overcome with remorse, he retreats to the monastery that he founded, St. Maurice's Abbey (modern Switzerland).

China

• Emperor Wu Di of the Liang Dynasty becomes a Buddhist and introduces the new religion to central China. He demands that sacrifices to imperial ancestors are changed to using dried meat, instead of the traditional animals (goats, pigs and cows).

By topic

Religion

• Council of Epaone: Bishops of southern Gaul convene near Epao (present Anneyron) in Burgundy. The synod enacts the first legislation against wooden altars, forbidding the building of any but stone altars with chrism (a mixture of oil and spice).

Science

• Aryabhata compiles his manual of mathematics and astronomy (approximate date).

Births

• Charibert I, king of the Franks (approximate date)
• Ebrulf, Frankish hermit and abbot (d. 596)

Deaths

• Dioscorus II, Coptic Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria
• Macedonius II, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)
• April 5 – Timothy I, patriarch of Constantinople