498

Year 498 (CDXCVIII) 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 Paulinus and Scytha (or, less frequently, year 1251 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 498 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:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	470s 480s 490s 500s 510s
Years:	495 496 497 498 499 500 501

498 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	498 CDXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	1251
Assyrian calendar	5248
Balinese saka calendar	419–420
Bengali calendar	−95
Berber calendar	1448
Buddhist calendar	1042
Burmese calendar	−140
Byzantine calendar	6006–6007
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3194 or 3134     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3195 or 3135
Coptic calendar	214–215
Discordian calendar	1664
Ethiopian calendar	490–491
Hebrew calendar	4258–4259
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	554–555
- Shaka Samvat	419–420
- Kali Yuga	3598–3599
Holocene calendar	10498
Iranian calendar	124 BP – 123 BP
Islamic calendar	128 BH – 127 BH
Javanese calendar	384–385
Julian calendar	498 CDXCVIII
Korean calendar	2831
Minguo calendar	1414 before ROC 民前1414年
Nanakshahi calendar	−970
Seleucid era	809/810 AG
Thai solar calendar	1040–1041
Tibetan calendar	阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 624 or 243 or −529     — to — 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 625 or 244 or −528

Pope Symmachus (498–514)

Events

Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Anastasius I abolishes the chrysargyron tax throughout the Eastern Roman Empire, before reforming the monetary system, using Greek numerals instead of Roman.[1]

Persia

• Kavadh I returns from exile with support of 30,000 Hephthalites (White Huns), and again assumes the Sassanid throne. He punishes his opponents and probably his brother Djamasp, who usurped the throne from him.[2]

Asia

• Prince Buretsu, age 9, succeeds his father Ninken and becomes the 25th emperor of Japan.[3]

Religion

• November 19 – Pope Anastasius II dies after a 2-year reign in which he has tried to conciliate followers of Acacius, late patriarch of Constantinople, who was excommunicated by Felix III.[4]
• November 22 – Anastasius is succeeded by Symmachus as the 51st pope, in the official papal selection in the Lateran Palace (Rome). Meanwhile, Antipope Laurentius is elected "pope" in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, causing a schism.[5]
• Flavian II succeeds Palladius as patriarch of Antioch.[6]

Births

• Jie Min Di, emperor of Northern Wei (d. 532)[7]
• Kevin of Glendalough, Irish abbot and saint (d. 618)[8]

Deaths

• November 19 – Pope Anastasius II[4]
• Ninken, emperor of Japan[9]
• Qi Mingdi, emperor of Southern Qi (b. 452)[10]

References

1. Leemans, Johan; Matz, Brian J.; Verstraeten, Johan (2011). Reading Patristic Texts on Social Ethics: Issues and Challenges for the Twenty-First Century. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780813218595.
2. Magill, Frank Northen; Aves, Alison; Moose, Christina J.; Rehn, Mark (1998). Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages. II. London and New York: Routledge. p. 559. ISBN 9781579580414.
3. Martin, Peter (1997). The Chrysanthemum Throne: A History of the Emperors of Japan. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press. p. 33. ISBN 9780824820299.
4. Loomis, Louise Ropes (2006) [1916]. The Book of the Popes (Liber Pontificalis). Merchantville, NJ: Arx Publishing, LLC. pp. 114–115. ISBN 9781889758862.
5. Penn, Imma (2007). Dogma Evolution & Papal Fallacies. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse. p. 223. ISBN 9781452059945.
6. Nicholson, Oliver (2018). The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 1631–1632. ISBN 9780192562463.
7. Ashkenazi, Gary (October 31, 2013). "Byzantine Gold Coin Found in Tomb of Emperor Jiemin of Northern Wei". Primal Trek. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
8. McNally, Frank (May 31, 2018). "The Birdman of Glendalough – An Irishman's Diary about St Kevin". The Irish Times. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
9. Doe, Paula; Dee, Paula; Ōtomo, Yakamochi (1982). A Warbler's Song in the Dusk: The Life and Work of Ōtomo Yakamochi (718-785). Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. pp. 6. ISBN 9780520043466. Emperor Ninken 498.
10. Knechtges, David R.; Taiping, Chang (2014). Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 2): A Reference Guide, Part Two. II. Leiden, Boston: BRILL. p. 1282. ISBN 9789004201644.