460 CE

(night) – Swabians invade the Gallic city of Lugo. The governor is killed. The Hepthalites (White Huns) conquer the remnants of the Kushan Empire and enter India. The Ajanta Caves (India) are completed (cut into the volcanic rock and elaborately painted).

In the 460s, the 5th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • The Hepthalites (White Huns) conquer the remnants of the Kushan Empire and enter India.source

Conflict & Security

  • March 27 (night) – Swabians invade the Gallic city of Lugo. The governor is killed.source
  • King Genseric, fearing a Roman invasion, tries to negotiate peace with Majorian, who refuses. The Vandals devastate Mauretania and Moorish warriors poison the wells.source
  • Majorian invades Hispania; his generals Nepotianus and Sunieric lead a Visigoth army into Gallaecia. The Suebi are defeated and Lusitania (modern Portugal) is conquered.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • Emperor Leo I founds the Excubitors (imperial guard) at Constantinople; this elite tagmatic unit (300 men) is recruited from among the warlike Isaurians (approximate date).source
  • Majorian assembles a large fleet in Nova Carthago (Cartagena) in preparation for an invasion of the Vandal Kingdom in Africa. However, King Genseric organizes an attack on the fleet, using individuals sympathetic to the Vandals to conduct the raid. The fleet is destroyed and the expedition is abandoned.source
  • Emperor Majorian gathers an expeditionary force (Alans and other barbarians) in Liguria, and enters Aquitaine after a long march, where he visits King Theodoric II at Toulouse.source

Religion & Belief

  • Gennadius I, patriarch of Constantinople, banishes Timothy II, patriarch of Alexandria.source
  • The Coptic Orthodox Church (Egypt) splits from the Chalcedonian Orthodox Church of Alexandria.source

Climate & Environment

  • A famine that will last for several years begins in the Persian Empire (approximate date).source

Culture & Society

  • The Ajanta Caves (India) are completed (cut into the volcanic rock and elaborately painted).source
  • The seated Buddha in the Yungang Grottoes, Datong (Shanxi), is made (approximate date).source
  • The remodeling of the dome of Baptistry of Neon at Ravenna (Italy) is finished.source

Births

  • Sanghapala, Mon-Khmer monk (died 524)source
  • Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire (approximate date)source
  • Saint Kessog in Cashel, an Irish missionarysource
  • Budic II, king of Brittany (approximate date)source
  • Hilderic, king of the Vandals and Alans (approximate date)source

Deaths

  • October 20 – Aelia Eudocia, Roman empress and wife of Theodosius IIsource
  • Ardaric, king of the Gepids (approximate date)source
  • Juqu Anzhou, prince of the Chinese Xiongnu states Northern Liangsource
  • Isaac of Antioch, Syriac theologiansource