What Happened in 496 AD
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- Nov 24 Anastasius II succeeds Gelasius I as Catholic Pope
- Dec 25 King Clovis I is baptized a Roman Catholic in Reims cathedral - first Germanic king to do so, according to Henry of Tours (year disputed)
- Nov 19 Pope Gelasius I, Catholic Pope (492-496) of Berber extraction, and writer (Doctrine of the Two Powers), dies at about 86 [birth details murky]