502

Byzantine Empire

 * War breaks out between the and.

Asia

 * The ends and the  begins in southern . Liang Wu Di succeeds Qi He Di.
 * Wu-Ti becomes Emperor of China (502–549).

Arts and Sciences

 * The n  declares private property to be the source of all evil.

Religion

 * — The Synodus Palmaris, called by king, clears  of all charges, thus ending the schism of.

Deaths

 * , Syrian poet
 * , king and saint
 * , king and saint