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Events

By Place

Europe

Byzantine Empire

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ February 25 — Odoacer agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great, and is later killed by him personally. Theodoric becomes king of the Ostrogoths and moves the capital to Ravenna.

★ March — Battle for the Body of St. Patrick

★ The Frankish king Clovis I marries the Burgundian princess Clotilde.

Byzantine Empire

★ Emperor Anastasius I defeats the revolt in Isauria.

Asia

★ Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei China starts adopting a sinicization policy as well as various reforms.

Births

★ Erzhu Rong

Deaths

★ March 15 — Odoacer, King of Italy

★ March 17 — Patrick, missionary Bishop to the Irish.

★ Qi Wu Di, ruler of the Chinese Southern Qi Dynasty

★ Xiao Zhangmao