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Lord Nwahs · Mar 22, 2025

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

Bankowiata · Mar 22, 2025

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 · Mar 22, 2025

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

Wilkshire · Mar 22, 2025

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

Bankowiata · Mar 22, 2025

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 · Mar 23, 2025

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 · Mar 23, 2025

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

Lord Nwahs · Mar 23, 2025

AD 449: Anatolius becomes patriarch of Constantinople.

KingHoward · Mar 23, 2025

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

Wilkshire · Mar 23, 2025

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 · Mar 23, 2025

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 · Mar 24, 2025

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 · Mar 24, 2025

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

Bankowiata · Mar 24, 2025

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 · Mar 24, 2025

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 · Mar 24, 2025

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 · Mar 24, 2025

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

Lord Nwahs · Mar 24, 2025

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

Bankowiata · Mar 25, 2025

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

Wilkshire · Mar 25, 2025

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

Bankowiata · Mar 25, 2025

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

Lord Nwahs · Mar 25, 2025

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

Wilkshire · Mar 25, 2025

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

Lord Nwahs · Mar 25, 2025

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 · Mar 26, 2025

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

brando · Mar 26, 2025

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

KingHoward · Mar 26, 2025

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 · Mar 27, 2025

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 · Mar 27, 2025

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

Lord Nwahs · Mar 27, 2025

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 · Mar 27, 2025

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

Wilkshire · Mar 27, 2025

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

Bankowiata · Mar 27, 2025

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 · Mar 27, 2025

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

Bankowiata · Mar 28, 2025

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

Wilkshire · Mar 28, 2025

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 · Mar 28, 2025

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

Wilkshire · Mar 29, 2025

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

Bankowiata · Mar 29, 2025

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.

Wilkshire · Sunday at 2:45 AM

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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