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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Pig丁亥( at the beginning of the year Fire Dog丙戌)

Era of Diocletian: 163/164 ( year November )

Syria: 758/759 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• The Huns under Attila destroy the city Serdica ( Sofia). In the Battle of the Huns defeat a Utus Eastern Roman army and penetrate then in front of up to Thermopylae.

• 447: The British ruler Vortigern convenes according to tradition, Saxon warriors Hengest and Horsa from mainland Europe to eastern Britain, so they support him against the Picts. The Anglo-Saxons rebel against the British in the sequence and build their own kingdoms.

Religion

• At a synod in Toledo the teachings of Proscillian be condemned.

Disasters

• January 27: An earthquake damaged the Constantinople Opel protective Theodosian wall considerably. Some sections are destroyed and 57 towers collapse.

Nature and Environment

• December 23: Total Solar Eclipse in Gaul and the Iberian peninsula.

• Year ( 5th century)
• 447