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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Rooster丁酉( at the beginning of the year Fire Monkey丙申)

Era of Diocletian: 173/174 ( year November )

Syria: 768/769 ( year in October )

Events

Europe

• February 7: Leo I, East Roman emperor is the successor of Marcian. As the first emperor he is crowned by the Patriarch of Constantinople Opel.

Africa

• Easter: In Alexandria there is unrest, which are directed against the unpopular among the people patriarch Proterius and in the course of which the latter is slain; his successor Timothy Aelurus.

Asia

• Hormizd III. is Persian Great King; rebelled against him, his brother Peroz I.
• Skandagupta defeated the Hephtaliten and can thus save the existence of the Gupta Empire again.

Born

• By 457: Hilderic, King of the Vandals († 533)

Died

• 000Januar: Avitus, western Roman emperor (c. 385)
• 000Januar: Marcian, East Roman emperor (c. 390)

• October 28: Ibas of Edessa, Assyrian Bishop

• Yazdegerd II, the Persian Great King
• Pelagia, Christian saint
• Proterius of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria

• By 457: Prosper Tiro of Aquitaine; Writer and saint (c. 390)