Events noted in 0500

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Born: Pindar usually styled the prince of Lyric poets

Publication: “Recueil d‘Estampes, d’apres Raphael, Titien, Carrache,” by Sadeler, John the first of a family of distinguished engravers

Publication: “Methodus foliorum, seu Plantag Florae Monspeliensisjuxta foliorum ordinem,” by Sauvages, Francis Boissier De the inventor of modern nosology

Born: Sophocles poet

504

Died: Arator the secretary and intendant of finances to Athaiaric

Publication: “Ecclesiastical Biography,” by Potter, Christopher was born also within the barony of Kendal in Westmorland (15911646)

510

Born: Epiphanius named the Scholastic

511

Born: Gildas historian

519

Born: Cato, Marcu Portius the censor

521

Born: Columba, St. renowned in Scotch history as the founder of a monastery at Icolmkill

522

Born: Cuerenhert, Theodore Van a very extraordinary person

523

Died: Avitus, Sextus Alcimus Ecditius son to the senator Isychius

Died: Fulgentius, St. writer

525

Born: Priscianus an eminent grammarian of antiquity

526

Died: Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus philosopher (480524)

530

Born: Caporali, Caesar poet

Died: Ferrandus, Fulgentius surnamed Fulgentius

Born: Themistocles the great preserver of Athens at the time of the Persian invasion

534

Died: Anthemius architect

536

Born: Evagrius Scholasticus historian

540

Born: Damascius philosopher

Born: Dionysius, Exiguus surnamed Exiguus

541

Publication: “Let him go; we are well rid of him.” by Bridge, William one of the most eminent nonconformists of the seventeenth century

544

Died: David, St. the patron of Wales

Born: Gregory surnamed the Great

Born: Gregory Of Tours

546

Died: Tribonianus lawyer

550

Born: Theognis an eminent Greek poer

551

Born: Confucius philosopher

555

Publication: “Epithalamium” by Cerrati, Paul lawyer

556

Died: Stesichorus poet

Born: Xenophanes philosopher

558

Born: Simonides poet

560

Born: Terentius, Publius writer

562

Publication: “Memoirs, or Chronicles,” by Marc He, Oliver De La a French courtier and author

567

Publication: “British Topography,” by Oldys, William bibliographer

Born: Stifels, Michael a protestant minister

569

Born: Mahomet founder of the system of religious imposture called Mahometanism

570

Born: Bias called one of the wise men of Greece

Publication: “Epistola ad eximium ducis Urbini mathematicum, Fredericum Commandinum, praefixa libello Machometi Bagdedini de superficierum divi­^ionibus, edita opera Devi et ejusdem Commandini Urbinatis,” by Dee, John mathematician

583

Born: Accius, Lucius poet

587

Born: Godefroj, James born in I 587

588

Publication: “Chronicon” by Brompton, John monk

Died: Zanzavlus, Jacob called also Baramus

589

Born: Racan, Honorat De Bueil, Marquis Of poet

Born: Segers, Gerard painter

590

Died: Gregory surnamed the Great

593

Publication: “A dissertation upon a Parthian coin; with characters on the reverse resembling those of the Palmyrenes,” by Swinton, John antiquary

596

Publication: “The Poem of Poems, or Sion’s Muse, contaynyng the diuine Song of king Salomon, deuided into eight eclogues,” by Markham, Gervase an English author

597

Died: Columba, St. renowned in Scotch history as the founder of a monastery at Icolmkill