495

This article is about the year 495. For the number, see 495 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	470s 480s 490s 500s 510s
Years:	492 493 494 495 496 497 498

495 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	495 CDXCV
Ab urbe condita	1248
Assyrian calendar	5245
Balinese saka calendar	416–417
Bengali calendar	−98
Berber calendar	1445
Buddhist calendar	1039
Burmese calendar	−143
Byzantine calendar	6003–6004
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3192 or 2985     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3193 or 2986
Coptic calendar	211–212
Discordian calendar	1661
Ethiopian calendar	487–488
Hebrew calendar	4255–4256
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	551–552
- Shaka Samvat	416–417
- Kali Yuga	3595–3596
Holocene calendar	10495
Iranian calendar	127 BP – 126 BP
Islamic calendar	131 BH – 130 BH
Javanese calendar	381–382
Julian calendar	495 CDXCV
Korean calendar	2828
Minguo calendar	1417 before ROC 民前1417年
Nanakshahi calendar	−973
Seleucid era	806/807 AG
Thai solar calendar	1037–1038
Tibetan calendar	阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 621 or 240 or −532     — to — 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 622 or 241 or −531

The Shaolin Monastery (Henan)

Year 495 (CDXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Viator without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1248 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 495 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Britannia

• Cerdic of Wessex and his son, Cynric, land somewhere on the south coast, probably near the Hampshire-Dorset border. Their followers establish the beginnings of the Kingdom of Wessex.

China

• Emperor Xiao Wen Di of Northern Wei builds the Shaolin Monastery in Henan for the monk Batuo (for alternate founding date see 477 or 497).

By topic

Religion

• Pope Gelasius I gains support from Italian bishops, in his assertion that the spiritual power of the papacy is superior to the emperor's temporal authority. Like his predecessors, the pope opposes the Byzantine emperor Anastasius I's efforts to establish Miaphysite doctrine.

Births

• Queen Amalasuintha of the Ostrogoths (approximate date)
• King Chlodomer of the Franks (d. 524)
• Finnian of Movilla, Irish bishop (d. 589)
• Guntheuc, queen of Burgundy and the Franks (d. c. 532)
• Husi Chun, general of Northern Wei (d. 537)
• King Theudebert I of Austrasia (approximate date)

Deaths

• Fráech mac Finchada, king of Leinster