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Calendar overview 456
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| 456 in other calendars | |
| Ethiopian calendar | 448/449 |
| Buddhist calendar | 999/1000 (southern Buddhism); 998/999 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 52nd (53rd) cycle
Year of the fire monkey丙申 ( at the beginning of the year wood sheep 乙未) |
| Jewish calendar | 4216/17 (September 16/17) |
| Coptic calendar | 172/173 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MCCIX (1209)
Diocletian's era : 172/173 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 766/767 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 767/768 (New Year October) |
| Spanish era | 494 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 512/513 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Europe
- October: The King of the Visigoths Theodoric II defeats the Suebi under Rechiar on a Roman mission and thus prevents their expansion on the Iberian Peninsula . In December he had Rechiar executed and installed Agiulf as governor of the Suebian Empire for the Western Roman Empire.
- October 16 : At Piacenza the general Ricimer defeats the emperor Avitus , whom he has killed a little later.
- Vandals conquer Corsica and Sardinia , and Capua is also destroyed by them. Ricimer wins a naval victory against the Vandals off Corsica, and in Sicily he beats them back near Agrigento .
- Aegidius becomes a Roman Magister militum in northern Gaul .
Asia
Disasters
- September 7th : An earthquake destroys Savaria , the predecessor of today's Szombathely .
Born
- Tao Hongjing , Chinese scholar and alchemist († 536 )
- around 456: Severus of Antioch , Monophysite patriarch († 538 )