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Heads of state

428
Silver coin Siliqua of Geiserich
Geiserich becomes King of the Vandals .
428 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar 420/421
Buddhist calendar 971/972 (southern Buddhism); 970/971 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 52nd (53rd) cycle

Year of the Earth Dragon龙 辰 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Rabbit 丁卯)

Jewish calendar 4188/89 (September 26-27)
Coptic calendar 144/145
Roman calendar ab urbe condita MCLXXXI (1181)

Diocletian's era : 144/145 (New Year November)

Seleucid era Babylon: 738/739 (turn of the year April)

Syria: 739/740 (New Year October)

Spanish era 466
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 484/485 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Europe

  • Gunderich is killed in the sack of Seville . His successor as King of the Vandals and Alans is his half-brother Geiserich , of whom some sources claim that he murdered Gunderich. The two underage sons of Gunderich are passed over when they succeed to the throne and are later murdered together with their mother. The new king plans to cross over to Mauritania with his people .
  • The Roman army master Flavius ​​Felix becomes consul alongside Flavius ​​Taurus.
  • around 428: Chlodio becomes leader of the Salfranken . According to legend, he is said to have ruled in "Dispargium". According to recent research, "Dispargium" is a castle on the Flemish Meuse .

Asia

  • Persarmenia , until then a Persian client kingdom that was ruled by the Arsacids , is incorporated as a province into the Persian Empire of the Sassanids .

religion

Died

  • July 23 : Pirrus , Western Roman usurper
  • Gunderich , King of the Vandals and Alans (* 379 )
  • 428/ 429 : Theodore of Mopsuestia , Greek Christian theologian of the Antiochian school and bishop of the city Mopsuestia, saint of the Assyrian Church of the East (* around 350 )

literature

  • Giusto Traina: 428 AD An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2011, ISBN 978-0-691-15025-3 . (Original title: 428 dopo Cristo. Storia di un anno. )