515

This article is about the year 515. For other uses, see 515 (disambiguation).

Year 515 (DXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Florentius and Anthemius (or, less frequently, year 1268 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 515 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	490s 500s 510s 520s 530s
Years:	512 513 514 515 516 517 518

515 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	515 DXV
Ab urbe condita	1268
Assyrian calendar	5265
Balinese saka calendar	436–437
Bengali calendar	−78
Berber calendar	1465
Buddhist calendar	1059
Burmese calendar	−123
Byzantine calendar	6023–6024
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3212 or 3005     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3213 or 3006
Coptic calendar	231–232
Discordian calendar	1681
Ethiopian calendar	507–508
Hebrew calendar	4275–4276
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	571–572
- Shaka Samvat	436–437
- Kali Yuga	3615–3616
Holocene calendar	10515
Iranian calendar	107 BP – 106 BP
Islamic calendar	110 BH – 109 BH
Javanese calendar	402–403
Julian calendar	515 DXV
Korean calendar	2848
Minguo calendar	1397 before ROC 民前1397年
Nanakshahi calendar	−953
Seleucid era	826/827 AG
Thai solar calendar	1057–1058
Tibetan calendar	阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 641 or 260 or −512     — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 642 or 261 or −511

Empress Ariadne (c. 450–515)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Autumn – Revolt of Vitalian: Byzantine general (magister militum) Vitalian mobilises his army, and marches again towards Constantinople. He captures the suburb of Sycae (modern Turkey) across the Golden Horn, and encamps there.
• Emperor Anastasius I gives Marinus, former praetorian prefect of the East, command over the Byzantine army. He defeats the rebel fleet at the harbor entrance, using a sulfur-based chemical substance, similar to the later Greek fire.
• Marinus lands with an army on the shore of Sycae and defeats the rebels. Disheartened by the losses suffered, Vitalian flees north under cover of the night.
• As a sign of his victory, Anastasius I leads a procession to Sosthenion, and attends a service of thanks at the local church dedicated to the Archangel Michael.
• Empress Ariadne, wife of Emperor Anastasius I, dies at Constantinople and is buried in the Church of the Holy Apostles.

Europe

• Amalasuintha, daughter of king Theodoric the Great, marries Eutharic, an Ostrogoth noble of the old Amal line.

By topic

Religion

• The St. Maurice's Abbey (Switzerland) is founded by Sigismund of Burgundy. He sets up five groups of monks to whom he entrusts the liturgy of the praise of God.

Births

• Approximate date – Cainnech of Aghaboe, Irish abbot and saint (d. 600)
• Hulü Guang, general of Northern Qi (d. 572)
• Yuwen Hu, regent of Northern Zhou (d. 572)

Deaths

• Ariadne, Byzantine empress
• Euphemius, patriarch of Constantinople
• Gao Zhao, high official of Northern Wei
• Xuan Wu Di, emperor of Northern Wei (b. 483)

References

Bibliography

• Bury, John Bagnell (1958a) [1923]. History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, Volume 1. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-20398-0.
• Bury, John Bagnell (1958b) [1923]. History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, Volume 2. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-20399-9.
• Cameron, Averil; Ward-Perkins, Bryan; Whitby, Michael, eds. (2000). The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume XIV: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, A.D. 425–600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5213-2591-2.