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Heads of State
Year of the Hare wood乙卯( at the beginning of the year Wood Tiger甲寅)
Era of Diocletian: 131/132 ( year November )
Syria: 726/727 ( year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- March riots in Alexandria lead, inter alia, the murder of the philosopher Hypatia by the bodyguard of the Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria.
- Summer: Wallia, after the murder of his brother Athaulf and the seven-day rule of Sigerich king of the Visigoths.
- Visigoths under Wallia and the Western Roman Empire under Honorius close a deal.
- The Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II sets the last Jewish patriarch Gamaliel VI. from.
- Kumaragupta I becomes ruler of the North -Indian Guptareiches.
Religion and Culture
- June: A synod in Jerusalem, with the participation of the local bishop, John, and the theologian Paul Orosius discusses the relationship of the Church to Priscillianists and Origenists.
- In Jerusalem, the Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sion created at Zionshügel. On December 26, they will receive as a relic bones, which are attributed to the first martyr Stephen.
Born
- To 415: Priscus, a historian ( † after 472)
Died
- Summer: Athaulf, King of the Visigoths
- Summer: Sigerich, briefly King of the Visigoths
- March 415 or March 416: Hypatia of Alexandria, Neoplatonic philosopher (c. 370)