What Happened in 496 AD

Major Events

  • Nov 24 Anastasius II succeeds Gelasius I as Catholic Pope
  • Dec 25 King Clovis I is baptized a Roman Catholic in Reims cathedral - first Germanic king to do so, according to Henry of Tours (year disputed)

Who Died in 496 AD

  • Nov 19 Pope Gelasius I, Catholic Pope (492-496) of Berber extraction, and writer (Doctrine of the Two Powers), dies at about 86 [birth details murky]