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World Timeline

AD 445: Domnus II, Patriarch of Antioch, summons a synod of Syrian bishops to confirm the deposition of Athanasius of Perrha.
 
AD 447: Theodosius II chooses a policy to protect Constantinople against the Huns. He removes Aspar and Areobindus (magister militum) from their military commands.
 
AD 450: Emperor Theodosius II dies; Marcian becomes Eastern Roman Emperor. Attila the Hun prepares to invade the Western Roman Empire.
 
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.
 
AD 454: Ardaric unites the Gepids with other Germanic tribes, and founds the Kingdom of the Gepids in the Pannonian Basin.
 
AD 468: The Eastern Roman Empire, led by Emperor Leo I, launches a massive but disastrous expedition against the Vandals in North Africa.
 
AD 470: Mamertus, bishop of Vienne, introduces the Rogation days (a three days' procession involving prayer to invoke God's mercy).
 
AD 473: Gundobad returns to Burgundy, where his father Gondioc has died, and becomes king of the Burgundians.
 
AD 475: Great fire in Constantinople with loss of Palace of Lausus and - along with it - the famous Zeus from Olympia.
 
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.
 
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.
 
AD 481: Jangsu of Goguryeo invades Silla with the Mohe. Baekje and Gaya come to Silla's aid and defeats the Goguryeo troops.
 
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