460s

The 460s decade ran from January 1, 460, to December 31, 469.

Events

460

• Emperor Majorian gathers an expeditionary force (Alans and other barbarians) in Liguria, and enters Aquitaine after a long march, where he visits King Theodoric II at Toulouse.
• Majorian invades
  Visigoth army into Gallaecia. The Suebi are defeated and Lusitania (modern Portugal
  ) is conquered.
• King
  Genseric, fearing a Roman invasion, tries to negotiate peace with Majorian, who refuses. The Vandals devastate Mauretania and Moorish
  warriors poison the wells.
• Majorian assembles a large fleet in Nova Carthago (Cartagena) in preparation for an invasion of the Vandal Kingdom in Africa. However, King Genseric organizes an attack on the fleet, using individuals sympathetic to the Vandals to conduct the raid. The fleet is destroyed and the expedition is abandoned.^[1]
• Emperor Leo I founds the Excubitors (imperial guard) at Constantinople; this elite tagmatic unit (300 men) is recruited from among the warlike Isaurians (approximate date).

Europe

• March 27 (night) – Swabians invade the Gallic city of Lugo. The governor is killed.

Asia

• The
  Hepthalites (White Huns) conquer the remnants of the Kushan Empire and enter India
  .
• A
  Persian Empire
  (approximate date).

• The remodeling of the dome of
  Baptistry of Neon at Ravenna (Italy
  ) is finished.
• The
  rock
  and elaborately painted).
• The seated
  Buddha in the Yungang Grottoes, Datong (Shanxi
  ), is made (approximate date).

• puppet emperor
  .
• August 7 – Majorian, having been beaten and tortured for five days, is beheaded near the Iria River (Lombardy).
• King
  Genseric continues the Vandal raids on the coast of Sicily and Italy. Ricimer sends an embassy to Carthage
  .
• Olybrius becomes the second candidate for the western throne. He is the husband of Placidia, who is being held in Vandal captivity.
• November 19 – Libius Severus, Roman senator from Lucania, is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

Europe

• The Visigoths under king Theodoric II recapture Septimania (Southern Gaul) after the assassination of Majorian, and invade Hispania again.
• Domain of Soissons (Gaul). He has friendly relations with the Romano-British (in Brittany
  ).

• 461 Apahunik' earthquake. It affected the province of Apahunik', located to the north of Lake Van, in Anatolia.^[2]

By topic

Religion

• November 10 – Pope Leo I dies at Rome, age 61 (approximate), after a 21-year reign in which he has resisted Manichaeism and defended the Church against Nestorianism. He is succeeded by Hilarius as the 46th pope.
• bishop of Vienne
  (Gaul).

462

• indiction cycle.^{[citation needed}
  ]
• Emperor Leo I pays a large ransom for Licinia Eudoxia and Placidia. They return after seven years of captivity in Carthage.^[3]
• The Monastery of Stoudios is founded in Constantinople.^{[citation needed]}

Asia

• The Daming calendar is introduced in China by mathematician Zu Chongzhi (approximate date).^{[citation needed]}

463

• Loire River
  .
• The Suebi live under a diarchy, and fight a civil war over the kingship in Galicia (Northern Spain).^[4]

Asia

• The
  Korean Peninsula
  begins.

464

• Olybrius is elected Roman consul by the Eastern court in Constantinople.

Europe

• The Suevic nation in Galicia (Northern Spain) is unified under King Remismund.
• King Theodoric II sends Remismund gifts (for recognizing his kingship), including weapons, and a Gothic princess for a wife.
• Domain of Soissons (Gaul
  ).

• Basiliscus, with the help of his sister Verina (wife of emperor Leo I), becomes a consul in the Eastern Roman Empire.
• puppet emperor of the Western Roman Empire
  , dies after a 4-year reign.
• September 2 – A fire begins in Constantinople and, over the next six days, destroys the buildings in eight of the 14 sections into which the Eastern Roman Imperial capital had been divided.^[5]
• Ricimer, de facto ruler, establishes political control for 2 years from his residence in Rome.

Britannia

• Britons near Ebbsfleet (Kent). During the battle 12 Welsh leaders are killed (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  ).

• King Remismund establishes a policy of friendship with the Visigoths, and promotes the conversion of the Suebi into Arianism in Galicia (Northern Spain).

China

• Liu Song Dynasty after his nephew is assassinated
  .

• Church of Santa Maria Maggiore
  .
• Peter the Fuller becomes patriarch of Antioch (approximate date).

466

• Emperor Leo I repels the Hun invasion of Dacia (modern Romania). They ravage the Balkans but are unable to take Constantinople thanks to the city walls, which are rebuilt and reinforced.
• conspiracy against Leo I. Ardabur is arrested for treason
  .
• Tarasicodissa adopts the Greek name of Zeno and marries Ariadne, eldest daughter of Leo I (approximate date).

Europe

• King Theodoric II is killed by his younger brother Euric, who succeeds him on the throne. He conquers Hispania and the harbor city of Marseille (Southern Gaul), adding them to the existing Visigothic Kingdom.
• Euric sends an embassy to the Eastern Roman Empire for recognition of the Visigoth sovereignty. He forms an alliance with the Suebi and the Vandals.
• A council of twelve townships emerges on the islands in the Venetian lagoon, to form a basic system of governance (approximate date).

By topic

Religion

• Peter the Fuller is deposed as patriarch of Antioch; Julian is elected as his successor.

467

• April 12 – Emperor Leo I has his general Anthemius elected emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He allies himself with Ricimer, de facto ruler of Rome, and marries Anthemius's daughter Alypia to him, to strengthen the relationship and end the hostilities between the Eastern and Western Empire.
• Summer – King
  Genseric extends his pirate raids in the Mediterranean Sea; the Vandals sack and enslave the people living in Illyricum, the Peloponnese and other parts of Greece
  . Leo I joins forces with the Western Empire.

• Emperor Skandagupta dies after a 12-year reign, as Huns consolidate their conquests in western India. He is succeeded by his half-brother Purugupta.

468

• Emperor Leo I assembles a massive naval expedition at Constantinople, which costs 64,000 pounds of gold (more than a year's revenue) and consists of over 1,100 ships carrying 100,000 men. It is the greatest fleet ever sent against the Vandals and brings Leo near to bankruptcy.
• Emperor Anthemius sends a Roman expedition under command of Marcellinus. He expels the Vandals from Sicily and retakes Sardinia. The Eastern general Heraclius of Edessa lands with a force on the Libyan coast, east of Carthage, and advances from Tripolitania.
• Genseric uses fire ships, filling them with brushwood and pots of oil, destroying 700 imperial galleys. Basiliscus escapes with his surviving fleet to Sicily, harassed all the way by Moorish
  pirates.
• August – Marcellinus is murdered in Sicily, probably at the instigation of his political rival, Ricimer. Heraclius is left to fight alone against the Vandals; after a 2-year campaign in the desert he returns to Constantinople.
• Basiliscus returns to Constantinople after a disastrous expedition against the Vandals. He is forced to seek sanctuary in the church of Hagia Sophia to escape the wrath of the people. Leo I gives him imperial pardon, but banishes him for 3 years to Heraclea Sintica (Thrace).
• Dengizich, son of Attila the Hun, sends an embassy to Constantinople to demand money. Leo I offers the Huns settlement in Thrace in exchange for recognition of his authority. Dengizich refuses and crosses the Danube.
• Roman forces under
  Utus (Vit, Bulgaria). Dengizich is killed and his head is paraded through the streets of Constantinople. Stuck on the end of a wooden pole, it is displayed above the Xylokerkos Gate.^[6]
• The Vandals reconquer Sicily, administering a decisive defeat to the Western forces.

By topic

Religion

• February 29 – Pope Hilarius dies at Rome after a 6½-year reign, and is succeeded by Simplicius as the 47th pope.

469

• Ostrogoth prince Theodoric, age 15, returns to Pannonia, after living as a child hostage at the court of Emperor Leo I in Constantinople (see 459).^[7]

Europe

• The Vandals invade Epirus (modern Greece). They are expelled from the Peloponnese (Greece) and in retaliation, the Vandals take 500 hostages at Zakynthos. On the way back to Carthage they^{[clarification needed]}are slaughtered.
• King Euric declares himself independent from the Western Roman Empire. He extends the Visigothic power in Hispania; conquering the cities of Pamplona, Zaragoza and Mérida.

By topic

Religion

• The Vatican makes a pact with the Salian Frankish king Childeric I, agreeing to call him "the new Constantine" on condition that he accept conversion to Christianity.

Significant people

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Births

460

• Budic II, king of Brittany (approximate date)
• Hilderic, king of the Vandals and Alans (approximate date)
• Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire (approximate date)

461

• Hilderic, king of the Vandals (approximate date)
• Romulus Augustulus, emperor of the Western Roman Empire

462

• Anicia Juliana, daughter of Olybrius
• Muryeong, king of Baekje (Korea)

463

• Liu Song Dynasty (d. 477
  )

• Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf, great-grandfather of Mohammed
  (approximate date)
• Liang Dynasty (d. 549
  )

• Ahkal Mo' Naab' I, Maya ruler of Palenque (d. 524
  )
• Dubricius, bishop and saint (approximate date)
• Liberius, Roman aristocrat (approximate date)
• sophist and rhetorician (approximate date)^[8]
• Severus, patriarch of Antioch (approximate date)
• Zacharias Rhetor, bishop and ecclesiastic historian (approximate date)^[8]

466

• Britons
  (approximate date)
• Clovis I, first king of the Franks (approximate date)
• Liang Dynasty (d. 535
  )

• October 13 – Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei, emperor of Northern Wei (d. 499)
• Cerdic, first king of Anglo-Saxon Wessex (approximate date)
• Byzantine emperor (d. 474
  )
• Liu Song (d. 479
  )

• Nectan of Hartland, Welsh prince and saint (approximate date)

469

• Liang Dynasty (d. 524
  )

460

• October 20 – Aelia Eudocia, Roman empress and wife of Theodosius II
• Ardaric, king of the Gepids (approximate date)
• Juqu Anzhou, prince of the Chinese Xiongnu states Northern Liang

461

• August 7 – Majorian, emperor of the Western Roman Empire
• November 10 – Pope Leo I
• Palladius, first bishop of Ireland (approximate date)

462

• Lóegaire mac Néill, High King of Ireland

463

• Frumar, Suevic king of Galicia (approximate date)
• Richimund, Suevic king of Galicia (approximate date)
• Romanus of Condat, hermit and saint (approximate date)

464

• Aegidius, Roman general (magister militum) (approximate date)
• Conall Gulban, king of Tir Chonaill (approximate date)
• Xiao Wu Di (b. 427
  )
• Liu Song Dynasty (b. 430
  )

• May 5 – Gerontius, Archbishop of Milan
• June 20 – Wen Cheng Di, emperor of Northern Wei (b. 440)
• August 15 – Libius Severus, emperor of the Western Roman Empire
• Buliugu Li, official of the Northern Wei dynasty
• Eógan mac Néill, king of Tír Eoghain (Ireland)
• Liu Song Dynasty^[9]

• Emperor Qianfei, emperor of the Liu Song dynasty (b. 449
  )
• Liu Song (b. 456
  )
• Lu Huinan, empress dowager of Liu Song (b. 412
  )
• Theodoric II, king of the Visigoths
• Yifu Hun, high official of Northern Wei

467

• Benignus of Armagh, Irish bishop (approximate date)
• Skandagupta, ruler of the Gupta Empire (India)

468

• February 29, – Pope Hilarius
• Dengizich, king of the Huns (approximate date)
• Gunabhadra, Indian Buddhist scholar-monk (b. 394)
• Marcellinus, Roman general (magister militum)

469

• Dengizich, king of the Huns (approximate date)
• Hydatius, bishop of Aquae Flaviae (approximate date)

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