510s

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century – 6th century – 7th century
Decades:	480s 490s 500s – 510s – 520s 530s 540s
Years:	510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

The 510s was a decade that began on 1 January 510 and ended on 31 December 519.

Events

• The convent of Saint-Césaire is built in Arles.
• Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Anastasius I ends a period of moderate ecclestical policy, and starts strongly favoring his own monophysitist beliefs.
• Flavian II, Patriarch of Antioch, is deposed and replaced with Severus.
• The island nation of Usan-guk is conquered by the Korean Silla Dynasty general Lee Sabu.
• Earliest known dated text in the Arabic alphabet, at Zebed in Syria
• The Revolt of Vitalian is put down by forces loyal to Byzantine emperor Anastasius I

Births

• Clovis I (born circa 466)
• Saint David

Deaths

• Gao Zhao
• Xuan Wu Di, ruler of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty
• Euphemius, deposed Patriarch of Constantinople