498. Publication of the Babylonian Talmud or Gemaras.
Violent contest between Symmachus and Laurentius for the episcopal throne at Rome, decided by Theodoric in favor of the former.
500. Clovis, King of the Franks, defeats the Burgundians near Dijon.
502. Syria and Palestine ravaged by the Saracens. The Bulgarians again devastate Thrace.
504. Expulsion by the Franks of the Alemanni from the Middle Rhine. Theodoric defeats the Bulgarians and retakes Sirmium, which they had captured.
505. Peace is declared between the Eastern Empire and Persia, ending desultory conflicts that had continued some years.
507. Clovis overthrows the Visigoths near Poitiers; he becomes master of nearly the whole of Aquitania. See [CLOVIS FOUNDS THE KINGDOM OF THE FRANKS], iv, 113.
Amalarich, Alaric's infant son, and Giselich, his natural son, are proclaimed joint kings of the Visigoths by Theodoric; he preserves for them all Spain and a part of Gaul.
508. Natanleod, a British prince, is defeated and slain, in a desperate battle, by Cerdic the Saxon.
510. Clovis adds the territory of certain minor Frank princes to his own territory; he makes Paris his capital. See [CLOVIS FOUNDS THE KINGDOM OF THE FRANKS], iv, 113.