498

498 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	498 CDXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	1251
Assyrian calendar	5248
Balinese saka calendar	419–420
Bengali calendar	−96 – −95
Berber calendar	1448
Buddhist calendar	1042
Burmese calendar	−140
Byzantine calendar	6006–6007
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3195 or 2988     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3196 or 2989
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	མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 624 or 243 or −529     — to — ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 625 or 244 or −528

Pope Symmachus (498–514)

Year 498 (CDXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday 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.

Events

By place

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.

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.

Japan

• Prince Buretsu, age 9, succeeds his father Ninken and becomes the 25th emperor.

By topic

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.
• 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.
• Flavian II succeeds Palladius as patriarch of Antioch.

Births

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

Deaths

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