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Years: 490 491 492 493 - 494 - 495 496 497 498

Decades: 460s 470s 480s - 490s - 500s 510s 520s

Centuries: 4th century - 5th century - 6th century

Events

• Pope Gelasius I delineates the relationship between church and state.
• Gelasius canonizes Saint George.
• The Lupercalia festival is replaced by Candlemas.
• An earthquake devastates Latakia.
• Under Emperor Xiaowen the Northern Wei capital is moved from Datong to Luoyang, a city long acknowledged as a major center in Chinese history.

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