518

In the year AD 518...

• Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, is deposed by a synod for his Monophysitism, and replaced as Patriarch by Paul the Jew.
• An earthquake destroys the Illyrian (Macedonian) city of Scupi (present-day Skopje) in what once was the Roman province of Moesia Superior.
• Sengyou, a Chinese Buddhist monk living under the Liang Dynasty in Southern China, finishes compiling his Hongming Ji, a collection of Buddhist apologetics, in an effort to defend Buddhism from increasing attacks from Daoists and Confucianists. He dies shortly thereafter.

These people were born in 518...

• Emperor Yomei of Japan.
• Thuringian princess and Frankish queen Saint Radegund.

These people died in 518...

• Byzantine emperor Anastasius I, succeeded by Justin I.
• Flavian II, former Patriarch of Antioch.
• Irish nun Saint Moninne of Killeavy.
• Chinese general of the Northern Wei Dynasty Yang Dayan.
• Chinese poetry scholar Zhong Rong.
• Chinese Buddhist monk Sengyou.

517 - 518 - 519

6th century

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