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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Monkey丙申( at the beginning of the year, wood sheep乙未)

Era of Diocletian: 172/173 ( year November )

Syria: 767/768 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• October: The Visigothic king Theodoric II defeated in Roman order, the Suevi under Rechiar, preventing its expansion in the Iberian Peninsula.
• October 16: At Piacenza the commander Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus, he can kill a little later.

• Vandals conquered Corsica and Sardinia, and Capua is destroyed by them. Before Corsica Ricimer manages a naval victory against the Vandals in Sicily he beats them back in Agrigento.
• Aegidius is Roman Magister militum in northern Gaul.

Asia

• Yūryaku is 21st emperor of Japan.

Disasters

• SEPTEMBER 7: An earthquake destroyed Sabaria, predecessor of today's Szombathely.

Born

• Tao Hongjing, Chinese scholar and alchemist

• To 456: Severus of Antioch, Monophysite Patriarch († 538)

Died

• 09 August: Anko, Japanese imperial

• 000Dezember: Rechiar, King of the Suevi

• To 456: Eutyches, theologian (c. 380)

• Year ( 5th century)
• 456