507

Years: 503 504 505 506 - 507 - 508 509 510 511

Decades: 470s 480s 490s - 500s - 510s 520s 530s

Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century

Events

• Battle of Vouillé: Clovis I defeats the Visigoths near Poitiers, ends Visigothic power in Gaul.
• Gesalec succeeds his father Alaric II as king of the Visigoths.
• Comgall becomes king of Dalriada.
• The town of Guilin, China, is renamed Guizhou.

Births

Deaths

• Alaric II, king of the Visigoths (killed in the Battle of Vouillé)
• Domangart I of Dalriada.