455

This page is about the year 455 of the Julian calendar .

Asia

• Skandagupta becomes Emperor Gupta of India (ending in 467 ). He managed to contain the Huns Hephtalites .
• Destruction of Sirsukh ( Taxila ) by Huns . The Kusan Purushapura to install their capital, near modern Peshawar.

Europe

June : Sack of Rome by the Vandals.

• March 16 : Petronius Maximus murdered Valentinian by a bucellaire of Aetius , Accili, and Trasila, brother of Emperor .
• March 27 : Start of reign of Petronius Maximus , Roman emperor of the West. He forced Eudoxia , Valentinian's widow, to marry and gives the title of Caesar to his son Palladius. Eudoxia, Valentinian for revenge, called the Vandal Genseric who landed at Ostia and pillage Rome for over a month ( June 2 ). Maxim is stoned by the people to have fled .
• Spring :
  • Battle of Nedao. The eldest son of Attila , Ellac , was killed by a coalition of Germanic tribes hostile to the Huns , the Gepidae , Ruges , Skira and Sarmatians rebels, led by King Gepida Ardaric. It's the end of the empire of the Huns in Europe because the two brothers in Ellac , and Dengitzic Ernac, fled eastward with their surroundings and begin to occupy the territories of the Pontic Ostrogoths. Irnik, another son of Attila attempt a raid on Constantinople , which will fail .
    • Some groups of Huns are committed to defend the Eastern Empire against the Eastern Germans. Emnetzur Ultzindur and settled in Dacia Ripensis in the valleys of the Utus, the Almus and Oescus facing the kingdom Gepida. Others, led by Kelkal, are integrated into the army of Aspar riders as mobile units .
    • The Ostrogoths , the collapse of the empire of Attila , flow back towards the east or are federated in Moesia or Dobrogea , under the nominal suzerainty of the Emperor of the East , which does not prevent them from looting provinces of the empire .
    • The Gepidae them, led by their king Ardaric , settling in the Balkans between the Danube to the south, Marosch north and the Tisza to the east (now Serbia ) .
    • The Skira of Edika settled south of the region between the Danube and Tisza .
  • The kingdom of Toulouse is confirmed to Visigoths by a treaty negotiated by Avitus , magister militum of Petronius Maximus .
• May 31 , Rome: Petronius Maximus was killed, stoned by the crowd when he tried to escape facing the Vandals who invests the Portus .
• 2 - June 16 : Sack of Rome . The Vandals , part of North Africa and led by Genseric , took and plundered Rome , and then set in Sicily. They have ravaged Capua , Nola and around Naples . Genseric returns to Africa with a huge booty and many hostages whose widow and daughters of Valentinian.
• July 9 : Eparchius Avitus is proclaimed Roman Emperor in Arles , after being brought to power by a meeting of Gallic senators Beaucaire the 7 (455-456) . It is a Senator Arverne , former prefect of the Praetorian Guard of Gaul, brought to power by Theodoric II , king of the Visigoths , whose army between peacefully in Arles in late summer, Avitus march on Italy with a body of Goths among its troops .

• Battle of Aylesford. Heads Jutes Hengist and Horsa , in charge of fighting the Picts by Vortigern , make a treaty with them and rebelled against the Britons , a first affrotement held at Aylesford. Horsa was killed, but his brother Hengist, victorious founded the kingdom of Kent .

Births in 455

• Theodoric the Great , the future king of the Ostrogoths.

Deaths in 455

• March 16 : Valentinian III , Roman emperor of the West, murdered.
• May 31 : Petronius Maximus .
• Prosper of Aquitaine , born near Bordeaux v. 390. He fought against heresies and was the secretary of Pope Leo the Great.

References

• Portal of the High Middle Ages
• Portal of the ancient world

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