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| c. 500 |
| | | The city of Tiwanaku develops to the south of Lake Titicaca, and soon dominates the surrounding region | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Beans are gathered by the Maya from wild cocoa trees and are probably used in a chocolate drink | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | According to Bede, the first widely accepted Anglo-Saxon ruler in southern Britain is Aelli, founder of the West Sussex kingdom | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Mayan priests feature in stone carvings smoking pipes and puffing the smoke towards the sacred sun | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Clovis and some 3000 of his soldiers are baptized in a massive ceremony at Reims | |
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| 518 |
| | | The Slavs cross the Danube and press southwards into the Roman provinces of Moesia and Thracia | |
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| 525 |
| | | Dionysius Exiguus, commissioned by the pope to improve chronology, makes an error of at least four years in his selected event for AD 1 | |
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| c. 525 |
| | | St Benedict gathers fellow hermits at Subiaco into a series of small monasteries | |
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| 525 |
| | | The law is changed to allow Justinian, of senatorial rank, to marry Theodora — whom courtesy describes as an actress | |
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| c. 525 |
| | | Boethius, in prison in Pavia and awaiting execution, writes the Consolation of Philosophy | |
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