The 490s decade ran from January 1, 490, to December 31, 499.
Significant people
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Abba Afse
Abba Aftse or ‘Afsé (probably late 400s and early 500s A.D.) was one of the Nine Saints of Ethiopia.
As he has a Syriac language, Syriac name, he likely came from Edessa or its surroundings. According to a ''gädl'' (Acts or ''Vita'') of him ...
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Abuna of Ethiopia
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Anastasius II, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, p. 496–498
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Mar Aqaq-Acace, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, 484–496
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Arthur
Arthur is a masculine given name of uncertain etymology. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur.
A common spelling variant used in many Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages is Artur. In Spanish and Ital ...
, ''dux bellorum'' (leader of battles) and
King of the Brythons of later legend
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Mar Babai I
Babai, also Babaeus, was Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Patriarch of the Church of the East from 497 to 503. Under his leadership, the Church in Sasanian Empire (Persia) became increasingly aligned with the Nestorianism, Nestorian movement ...
, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, 497–503
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Benedict of Nursia
Benedict of Nursia (; ; 2 March 480 – 21 March 547), often known as Saint Benedict, was a Great Church, Christian monk. He is famed in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Churches, the Anglican Communion, and Old ...
, founder of Western
Christian monasticism
Christian monasticism is a religious way of life of Christians who live Asceticism#Christianity, ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship. It began to develop early in the history of the Christian Church, m ...
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Cerdic of Wessex
Cerdic ( ; ) is described in the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Wessex, reigning from around 519 to 534 AD. Subsequent kings of Wessex were each claimed by th ...
, Saxon invader and future king and founder of the Kingdom of
Wessex
The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886.
The Anglo-Sa ...
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Cynric of Wessex
Cynric () was King of Wessex from 534 to 560. Everything known about him comes from the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle''. There, he is stated to have been the son of Cerdic, who is considered the founder of the kingdom of Wessex. However, the Angli ...
, Saxon invader and future king of Wessex
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Euphemius, Patriarch of Constantinople, 489–495
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Felix II (excluding
Antipope Felix II
Antipope Felix II, an Archdeacon of Rome, was installed as Pope in 355 AD after the Emperor Constantius II banished the reigning Pope, Liberius, for refusing to subscribe to a sentence of condemnation against Saint Athanasius. Charles A. Coul ...
), Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, p. 483–492
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Gelasius I, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, p. 492–496
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Macedonius II
Macedonius II of Constantinople (Greek: Μακεδόνιος; died 517) was patriarch of Constantinople (496–511).
Biography
Within a year or two (the date is uncertain) he assembled a council, in which he confirmed in writing the acts o ...
, Patriarch of Constantinople, 495–511
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Symmachus, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, p. 498–514
References
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