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Events

By Place

Western Roman Empire

Eastern Roman Empire

British Isles

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Western Roman Empire

★ Capua is destroyed by the Vandals.

★ Ricimer beats the Vandals in a sea battle near Corsica.

★ 5 October — Theodoric II of the Visigoths, in the name of the emperor Avitus, defeats the Sueves on the river Urbicus near Astorga in Gallaecia; this shatters the power of the Sueves.

★ 17 October — The magistri militum Ricimer and Majorian defeat the emperor Avitus and compel him to renounce the purple and become Bishop of Placentia. Ricimer becomes ''de facto'' ruler of the western Roman empire

Eastern Roman Empire

★ Emperor Marcian quells disturbances on the Armenian frontier.

British Isles

★ St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary Bishop.

Births

★ Liu Zixun

Deaths

★ Eutyches, Greek theologian