Years: 489 490 491 492 - 493 - 494 495 496 497

Decades: 460s 470s 480s - 490s - 500s 510s 520s

Centuries: 4th century - 5th century - 6th century

Events

• February 25 - Odoacer agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great, and is later killed by him personally. Theodoric becomes king of the Ostrogoths and moves the capital to Ravenna.
• The Frankish king Clovis I marries the Burgundian princess Clotilde.
• Eastern Roman emperor Anastasius I defeats the revolt in Isauria.

Births

Deaths

• March 15 - Odoacer, King of Italy
• Qi Wu Di, ruler of the Chinese Qi Dynasty