505

This article is about the year 505. For other uses, see 505 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	480s 490s 500s 510s 520s
Years:	502 503 504 505 506 507 508

505 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	505 DV
Ab urbe condita	1258
Assyrian calendar	5255
Balinese saka calendar	426–427
Bengali calendar	−88
Berber calendar	1455
Buddhist calendar	1049
Burmese calendar	−133
Byzantine calendar	6013–6014
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3202 or 2995     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3203 or 2996
Coptic calendar	221–222
Discordian calendar	1671
Ethiopian calendar	497–498
Hebrew calendar	4265–4266
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	561–562
- Shaka Samvat	426–427
- Kali Yuga	3605–3606
Holocene calendar	10505
Iranian calendar	117 BP – 116 BP
Islamic calendar	121 BH – 120 BH
Javanese calendar	391–392
Julian calendar	505 DV
Korean calendar	2838
Minguo calendar	1407 before ROC 民前1407年
Nanakshahi calendar	−963
Seleucid era	816/817 AG
Thai solar calendar	1047–1048
Tibetan calendar	阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 631 or 250 or −522     — to — 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 632 or 251 or −521

Year 505 (DV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Theodorus and Sabinianus (or, less frequently, year 1258 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 505 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

Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Anastasius I agrees to pay his share of the cost of defending the Caucasian Gates, against nomadic invasions from East Asia.
• Anastasius I decides to rebuild the village of Dara (Northern Mesopotamia). He constructs a new strategic fortress to guard the frontier.
• The white Huns (Hephthalites) from the Caucasus invade the Persian Empire.

Europe

• The Colosseum (Amphitheatrum Flavium) in Rome suffers damage from an earthquake, as it did in 422.

Births

• Belisarius, Byzantine general (d. 565)
• Dorotheus of Gaza, Christian monk and abbot (approximate date)
• Dynod Bwr, king of Hen Ogledd (approximate date)
• Varāhamihira, Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 587)
• Saint Yared, Axumite composer (d. 571)

Deaths

• Eugenius, bishop of Carthage
• John I, Coptic Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria