Editing 506

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Year '''506''' ('''[[Roman numerals|DVI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of [[Flavius Ennodius Messala|Messala]] and [[Areobindus Dagalaiphus Areobindus|Dagalaiphus]]''' (or, less frequently, '''year 1259 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 506 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 ==
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=== By place ===

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* [[November]] &ndash; Emperor [[Anastasius I (emperor)|Anastasius I]] accepts a peace agreement with the [[Sasanian Empire]] (Persia), based on the ''[[status quo]]''. He upgrades the [[fortification]]s at [[Suruç|Batnae]], [[Edessa]] and [[Amida (Mesopotamia)|Amida]] (Northern [[Mesopotamia (Roman province)|Mesopotamia]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars: a narrative sourcebook|editor1=Greatrex, Geoffrey |editor2=Lieu, Samuel N. C. |location=London|publisher=Routledge and Kegan Paul|year=2002|page=74}}</ref>

==== Europe ====
* [[February 2]] &ndash; King [[Alaric II]] issues the ''"Lex Romana Visigothorum"'' or ''[[Breviary of Alaric]]'', an abstract of [[Roman law]]s and imperial decrees, compiled by a commission appointed to provide a law code for Alaric's Roman subjects. The ''"Lex Romana"'' will be the standard for [[justice]] in the [[Visigoths|Visigothic]] realm.
* The Visigoths capture the city of [[Tortosa|Dertosa]] in [[Catalonia]]. They arrest and execute the [[Roman usurper]] [[Peter (usurper)|Peter]], with his head being sent as a trophy to [[Saragossa]] ([[Spain]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=Collins|first=Roger|title=Visigothic Spain, 409–711|location=Oxford|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|page=35|year=2004|isbn=0-631-18185-7}}</ref>

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Council of Agde]]: The [[bishop]]s of Visigothic [[Gaul]] under the presidency of [[Caesarius of Arles]] meet. 
* [[Antipope Laurentius]] is persuaded by [[Theoderic the Great]] to resign his claim to the throne of [[Pope Symmachus]], ending a [[Schism (religion)|schism]] in the [[Catholic Church]]; Laurentius then [[Fasting|fast]]s until his death.<ref>{{cite book|last=Richards|first=Jeffrey|title=The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages|location=London|publisher=Routledge and Kegan Paul|year=1979|isbn=0710000987}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor=Davies, Raymond|title=The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis): the ancient biographies of the first ninety Roman bishops to AD 715|publisher=Liverpool University Press|year=1989|isbn=0853232164|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofpontiffsli0000unse}}</ref></onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[Soga no Iname]], leader of the [[Soga clan]] (d. [[570]])
* [[Wei Shou]], Chinese [[author]] (d. [[572]])
* [[Empress Zhang Yao'er|Zhang Yao'er]], empress of [[Chen dynasty]] China (d. [[570]])

== Deaths ==
* [[Emperor Buretsu|Buretsu]], emperor of [[Japan]]
* [[Peter (usurper)|Peter]], [[Roman usurper]] in Spain

== References ==
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