World Timeline

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 442: The Monastery of St. Shenouda the Archimandrite (White Monastery) near Sohag (Egypt) is built.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 443: Gunabhadra, Indian Buddhist monk, is an invited honored guest by emperor Wen of Liu Song (Liu Song dynasty). He translates the Lankavatara Sutra from Sanskrit into the Chinese language.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 444: Flavius Aetius, Roman general (magister militum), settles the Alans around Valence and Orléans, to contain unrest in Brittany.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 445: Domnus II, Patriarch of Antioch, summons a synod of Syrian bishops to confirm the deposition of Athanasius of Perrha.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 446: The Britons and Anglo-Saxon mercenaries, under King Vortigern, appeal to Flavius Aetius (magister militum of Gaul) for military assistance in their struggle against the Picts and Irish. Aetius has enough problems with Attila the Hun and is unable to send any help (according to Groans of the Britons).

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 447: Theodosius II chooses a policy to protect Constantinople against the Huns. He removes Aspar and Areobindus (magister militum) from their military commands.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 448: Theodosius II orders all non-Christian books burned. (Byzantium)

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 449: Anatolius becomes patriarch of Constantinople.

 

[KingHoward]

AD 450: Emperor Theodosius II dies; Marcian becomes Eastern Roman Emperor. Attila the Hun prepares to invade the Western Roman Empire.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 451: Thorismund succeeds his father Theodoric I as king of the Visigoths. He is crowned in the capital at Toulouse, and extends the Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 452: Nan'an Yinwang succeeds his father Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei, after he is assassinated by the eunuch Zong Ai. Later this year, Yinwang is murdered as well, and Ai is overthrown by a group of high officials. Wencheng Di, age 12, becomes the new emperor of Northern Wei.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 453: Attila the Hun is found dead in bed, after a wedding feast with the Goth princess Ildico. He dies of a nosebleed at his Hungarian stronghold, drowning in his own blood aged about 47.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 454: Ardaric unites the Gepids with other Germanic tribes, and founds the Kingdom of the Gepids in the Pannonian Basin.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 455: Skandagupta succeeds Kumaragupta I as ruler of the Gupta Empire (India). During his reign he crushes the Hun invasion; however, the expense of the wars drains the empire's resources and contributes to its decline.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 456: A civil war occurs in the Western Roman Empire, when Roman generals Majorianus and Ricimer revolted against the Western Roman emperor Avitus who was appointed by the Visigoths after the Sack of Rome in 455.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 457: Yazdegerd II dies after a 19-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Hormizd III who seizes the Persian throne. His elder brother Peroz I rebels against him in Sistan (Iran). After months of civil war he defeats Hormizd and becomes the seventeenth Sasanian king of the Persian Empire.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 458: Jabi becomes the king of the Korean kingdom of Silla.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 459: A total lunar eclipse on May 3, in which totality was for 106 minutes and 32 seconds.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 460: The remodeling of the dome of Baptistry of Neon at Ravenna (Italy) is finished.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 461: Libius Severus, Roman senator from Lucania, is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 462: September 1 – Possible start of the first Byzantine indiction cycle.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 463: The Kibi Clan Rebellion against the Yamato state (Japan) in the Korean Peninsula begins.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 464: The Suevic nation in Galicia (Northern Spain) is unified under King Remismund.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 465: Battle of Wippedesfleot: The Saxons under command of Hengist and Aesc are defeated by the Britons near Ebbsfleet (Kent). During the battle 12 Welsh leaders are killed (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 466: Peter the Fuller is deposed as patriarch of Antioch; Julian is elected as his successor.

 

[brando]

AD 467: Emperor Leo I has his general Anthemius elected emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

 

[KingHoward]

AD 468: The Eastern Roman Empire, led by Emperor Leo I, launches a massive but disastrous expedition against the Vandals in North Africa.

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 469: Ostrogoth prince Theodoric, age 15, returns to Pannonia, after living as a child hostage at the court of Emperor Leo I in Constantinople.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 470: Mamertus, bishop of Vienne, introduces the Rogation days (a three days' procession involving prayer to invoke God's mercy).

 

[Lord Nwahs]

AD 471: The ruler of the nomadic Tuoba tribal state in Northern China adopts a Chinese surname, and will rule Northern Wei as Xiao Wen Di, until his death in 499.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 472: Mount Vesuvius erupts. During the volcanic eruption the whole of southern Europe is blanketed by ash.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 473: Gundobad returns to Burgundy, where his father Gondioc has died, and becomes king of the Burgundians.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 474: February 9 – Zeno, father of Leo II, is crowned as co-emperor (Augustus). He rules the empire together with his son, and stabilises the Eastern frontier.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 475: Great fire in Constantinople with loss of Palace of Lausus and - along with it - the famous Zeus from Olympia.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 476: The birth of Aryabhata is traditionally regarded as the beginning of the classical period of Indian mathematics and astronomy.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 477: The independent Mauro-Roman Kingdom (Kingdom of the Moors and Romans) is formed by Christian Berbers in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis (present-day northern Algeria), bordering the Vandal Kingdom to the east.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 478: The first Shinto shrines are built in Japan.

 

[Wilkshire]

AD 479: Dongseong becomes king of the Korean kingdom of Baekje.

 

[Bankowiata]

AD 480: Emperor Zeno officially dissolves the east/west co-emperorship, ruling as the first sole emperor of Rome in 85 years. The position of emperor is never again divided.