Centuries:	5th century · 6th century · 7th century
Decades:	470s 480s 490s 500s 510s 520s 530s
Years:	499 500 501 502 503 504 505

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

502 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	502 DII
Ab urbe condita	1255
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1342 – -1341
Berber calendar	1452
Buddhist calendar	1046
Burmese calendar	-136
Byzantine calendar	6010 – 6011
Chinese calendar	辛巳年十二月初七日 (3138/3198-12-7) — to — 壬午年十一月十七日 (3139/3199-11-17)
Coptic calendar	218 – 219
Ethiopian calendar	494 – 495
Hebrew calendar	4262 – 4263
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	557 – 558
- Shaka Samvat	424 – 425
- Kali Yuga	3603 – 3604
Holocene calendar	10502
Iranian calendar	120 BP – 119 BP
Islamic calendar	124 BH – 123 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2835
Thai solar calendar	1045
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Area code of northern central Kentucky, including Louisville (see Area code 502)

Events

By Place

Byzantine Empire

• War breaks out between the Byzantine Empire and Persia.

Asia

• The Southern Qi Dynasty ends and the Liang Dynasty begins in southern China. Liang Wu Di succeeds Qi He Di.
• Wu-Ti becomes Emperor of China (502–549).

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

• The Persian philosopher Mazdak declares private property to be the source of all evil.

Religion

• 23 October — The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, clears Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.

Births

Deaths

• Emperor He of Southern Qi
• Narsai of Mealletha, Syrian poet
• Vakhtang I Gorgasali, Georgian king and saint