419 CE

Jin Gongdi, age 33, succeeds his developmentally disabled brother Jin Andi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Andi is strangled by orders of the warlord Liu Yu. A law is passed, prohibiting the act of instructing barbarians on shipbuilding in the Western and Eastern Roman Empires.

In the 410s, the 5th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • A law is passed, prohibiting the act of instructing barbarians on shipbuilding in the Western and Eastern Roman Empires.source

Conflict & Security

  • Jin Gongdi, age 33, succeeds his developmentally disabled brother Jin Andi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Andi is strangled by orders of the warlord Liu Yu.source

Births

  • July 2 – Valentinian III, emperor of the Western Roman Empire (died 455)source

Deaths

  • Jin Andi, emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (born 382)source