507

Year 507 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year of the Consulship of Anastasius and Venantius. The denomination 507 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

Emperor Anastasius I completes the strategic fortress at Dara. He raises the city walls to 30 feet, disregarding Persian protests. Alarmed by the depredations of Slavs and Bulgars in Thrace, he builds the Anastasian Wall from the Black Sea to Propontis, across the narrow peninsula near Constantinople.
Europe
Battle of Vouillé: A Frankish army under command of Clovis I invades the Visigothic Kingdom, and defeats King Alaric II near Poitiers. The Visigoths refuse to be enslaved, and retreat to Septimania. Clovis annexes Aquitania, and captures Toulouse.
Gesalec succeeds his father Alaric II as king of the Visigoths. He establishes his residence at Narbonne and is supported by an alliance with the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great.
Clovis I dictates the Salic Law to the Franks.
Hermanafrid, king of the Thuringii, marries Amalaberga. He begins his rule, shared with his brothers Baderic and Bertachar.
Wooden coffins and wooden tools are used in the burial places of the Alemanni.
Asia
The town of Guilin, China, is renamed Guizhou.
Battle of Zhongli: army of Liang dynasty led by Wei Rui decisively defeated army of Northern Wei
Keitai becomes the 26th emperor of Japan.
The first and smaller of the two Buddhas of Bamyan is erected in central Afghanistan.
Mesoamerica
A Mayan altar with the head of the death god is built in Copán, Honduras.