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Calendar overview 408
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| 408 in other calendars | |
| Ethiopian calendar | 400/401 |
| Buddhist calendar | 951/952 (southern Buddhism); 950/951 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 51st (52nd) cycle
Year of the Earth-Monkey戊申 ( at the beginning of the year Fire-Sheep 丁未) |
| Jewish calendar | 4168/69 (September 6-7) |
| Coptic calendar | 124/125 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MCLXI (1161)
Diocletian's era : 124/125 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 718/719 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 719/720 (New Year October) |
| Spanish era | 446 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 464/465 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
- May 1st : The 7-year-old Theodosius II is crowned emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire after the death of his father Arcadius .
- August 22nd : Stilicho is the victim of an intrigue: As the son of a vandal , he is suspected of being friendly to Germans anyway , and some senators accuse him of seeking the imperial crown for his son Eucherius; he is executed for high treason , as is his wife Serena a little later . As a result, Westrom lacked a capable general who would be equal to Alaric I.
- September: The Visigoths invade Italy under Alaric and extort a ransom. When the Western Roman Emperor Honorius refused them residence in the Noricum , they besieged Rome and forced Priscus Attalus, prefect of the city, to be elevated to the position of Western Roman Emperor. As a result, Alaric also besieged Ravenna , where Emperor Honorius has withdrawn. At the same time, the Goths received additional reinforcement from troops under Alarich's brother-in-law Athaulf , who crossed the pass in the Birnbaumer forest near Aquileia in the same year .
- Vandals and Suebi cross the Pyrenees , where Constantine III. fail to stop them; they reach the Iberian Peninsula and begin to settle down there.
Culture and religion
- Under Emperor Flavius Honorius , a nationwide law ordered the destruction of all pagan works of art that had remained until then .
Died
Date of death secured
- May 1st : Arcadius , Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (* around 377 )
- July 25 : Olympias of Constantinople , Byzantine deaconess and abbess (* around 368 )
- August 22nd : Stilicho , Western Roman army master and politician of vandal origin (* around 360 )
Exact date of death unknown
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