508

Year 508 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Venantius and Celer. The denomination 508 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 formally recognizes Clovis I of the Salian Franks as ruler of Gaul. He sends a Byzantine fleet of 100 warships to raid the coasts of Italy.
Britannia
Battle of Netley: King Cerdic of Wessex moves with an Anglo-Saxon army inland, and defeats the British king, Nudd-Lludd.
Winter - All the rivers in England are frozen for more than two months.
Europe
King Clovis I fails in an effort to take the walled city of Carcassonne. He establishes Paris as his capital and gets baptized, making Roman Catholicism the official religion of the Kingdom of the Franks.
King Theodoric the Great sends an Ostrogoth army, led by his sword-bearer Theudis, drives the Franks out of Provence, and recovers Septimania from the Visigoths.