442
History Portal | Portal Biographies | Current Events | Calendar years
◄ | 4th century | 5th century | 6th century | ► ◄ | 410er | 420 | 430er | 440 | 450 | single 460 | 470 | ► ◄ ◄ | ◄ | 438 | 439 | 440 | 441 | 442 | 443 | 444 | 445 | 446 | ► | ► ►
Heads of State
Year of The Water Horse壬午( at the beginning of the year metal snake辛巳)
Era of Diocletian: 158/159 ( year November )
Syria: 753/754 ( year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- In a contract with the Vandal king Genseric the Western Roman Empire under Valentinian III recognized. whose kingdom as the first sovereign state on Roman soil until then.
- Genseric's son Huneric is with Eudocia, daughter of Valentinian III. engaged; the connection Huneric the daughter of the Visigoth Theodoric I. is solved: it is mutilated nose and ears, sent home.
- Genseric suppressed a rebellion of the Vandal nobility against his autocratic rule.
Culture and Religion
- At 442: The White Monastery in Sauhadsch (Egypt) is founded.
Born
- Isidore of Miletus, a Greek architect († 537)
- Year ( 5th century)
- 442