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Heads of State

Year of wood sheep乙未( at the beginning of the year Wood Horse甲午)

Era of Diocletian: 171/172 ( year November )

Syria: 766/767 ( year October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • JULY 9: Avitus is proclaimed at the instigation of the Visigoth king Theodoric II in Beaucaire to the Western Roman Emperor and pulls in September in Rome. He appoints Ricimer to his military chief.
  • Battle of Aylesford between Britons under Vortigern and Hengest and Horsa under Anglo-Saxons; Victory of the Anglo-Saxons, but falls Horsa in battle.

Africa

  • Leptis Magna is conquered by the Vandals.

Asia

  • Skandagupta, after the death of his father Kumaragupta I. rulers of the Indian Gupta Empire.

Died

  • Justa Grata Honoria, daughter of the Roman Emperor Constantius III. (* 418)
  • Horsa, Germanic warrior prince in Britain
  • Kumaragupta I, ruler of the Indian Guptareiches
  • Palladius, in co-regent Western Roman Empire (c. 420)
April 2014 List of centuries 3rd century 7th century 410s 420s 430s 440s 450s 460s 470s 490s 445 465 Vikram Samvat Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Coptic calendar Valentinian III. May 31 June 2 Vandalism 1794 Licinia Eudoxia Eudocia (daughter of Valentinian III) Tremissis Beaucaire (Gard) Hengist and Horsa 419 396 Palladius (Caesar)
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