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517 CE

Council of Epaone: Bishops of southern Gaul convene near Epao (present Anneyron) in Burgundy. The synod enacts the first legislation against wooden altars, forbidding the building of any but stone altars with chrism (a mixture of oil and spice). Aryabhata compiles his manual of mathematics and astronomy (approximate date). Emperor Wu Di of the Liang Dynasty becomes a Buddhist, and introduces the new religion to central China. He demands that sacrifices to imperial ancestors be changed to using dried meat, instead of the traditional animals (goats, pigs and cows).

Religion & Belief

  • Council of Epaone: Bishops of southern Gaul convene near Epao (present Anneyron) in Burgundy. The synod enacts the first legislation against wooden altars, forbidding the building of any but stone altars with chrism (a mixture of oil and spice).source
  • King Sigismund of Burgundy is opposed by his son Sigeric, and has him strangled. Overcome with remorse, he retreats to the monastery that he founded, St. Maurice's Abbey (modern Switzerland).source
  • Emperor Wu Di of the Liang Dynasty becomes a Buddhist, and introduces the new religion to central China. He demands that sacrifices to imperial ancestors be changed to using dried meat, instead of the traditional animals (goats, pigs and cows).source

Science & Discovery

  • Aryabhata compiles his manual of mathematics and astronomy (approximate date).source

Births

  • Ebrulf, Frankish hermit and abbot (d. 596)source
  • Charibert I, king of the Franks (approximate date)source

Deaths

  • April 5 – Timothy I, patriarch of Constantinoplesource
  • Dioscorus II, Coptic Orthodox patriarch of Alexandriasource
  • Macedonius II, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)source