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The 460s

134 sourced entries across 10 years, inside the 5th century. Each year below opens its own page; the lines under it are that year’s highest-ranked entries.

460 CE22 entries

  • March 27 (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).

461 CE14 entries

  • August 2 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona (Northern Italy), and deposed by Ricimer (magister militum) as puppet emperor.
  • November 10 – Pope Leo I dies at Rome, age 61 (approximate), after a 21-year reign in which he has resisted Manichaeism and defended the Church against Nestorianism. He is succeeded by Hilarius as the 46th pope.
  • November 19 – Libius Severus, Roman senator from Lucania, is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

462 CE8 entries

  • September 1 – Possible start of the first Byzantine indiction cycle.
  • Vandal War (461-468): After negotiations, Emperor Leo I pays a large ransom for Licinia Eudoxia and Placidia. They return after seven years of captivity in Carthage.
  • The Daming calendar is introduced in China by mathematician Zu Chongzhi (approximate date).

463 CE7 entries

  • The Kibi Clan Rebellion against the Yamato state (Japan) in the Korean Peninsula begins.
  • The Suebi live under a diarchy, and fight a civil war over the kingship in Galicia (Northern Spain).
  • In the Gothic war against Aegidius, Childeric I, king of the Salian Franks, allies with the Roman general Aegidius. This war is ended by the battle near Orléans, where the Visigoths under King Theodoric II are defeated by the Franks, while crossing the Loire River.

464 CE10 entries

  • The Suevic nation in Galicia (Northern Spain) is unified under King Remismund.
  • Aegidius dies (possibly poisoned) and is succeeded by his son Syagrius, who becomes ruler of the Domain of Soissons (Gaul).
  • Olybrius is elected Roman consul by the Eastern court in Constantinople.

465 CE21 entries

  • August 15 – Libius Severus, puppet emperor of the Western Roman Empire, dies after a 4-year reign.
  • November 19 – Pope Hilarius convokes a synod at Rome's Church of Santa Maria Maggiore.
  • Qian Fei Di, then Ming Di, becomes ruler of the Liu Song dynasty after his nephew is assassinated.

466 CE17 entries

  • Euric sends an embassy to the Eastern Roman Empire for recognition of the Visigoth sovereignty. He forms an alliance with the Suebi and the Vandals.
  • King Mehama of the Alkhans was victorious in a battle against the Kidarites.
  • A council of twelve townships emerges on the islands in the Venetian lagoon, to form a basic system of governance (approximate date).

467 CE9 entries

  • April 12 – Emperor Leo I has his general Anthemius elected emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He allies himself with Ricimer, de facto ruler of Rome, and marries Anthemius's daughter Alypia to him, to strengthen the relationship and end the hostilities between the Eastern and Western Empire.
  • Emperor Skandagupta dies after a 12-year reign, as the Huns consolidate their conquests in western India. He is succeeded by his half-brother Purugupta.
  • Summer – Vandal War (461-468): King Genseric extends his pirate raids in the Mediterranean Sea; the Vandals sack and enslave the people living in Illyricum, the Peloponnese and other parts of Greece. Leo I joins forces with the Western Empire.

468 CE16 entries

  • February 29 – Pope Hilarius dies at Rome after a 6½-year reign, and is succeeded by Simplicius as the 47th pope.
  • March – Jiaozhou governor Lưu Mục dies of illness. Lý Trường Nhân, a nobleman, launches a coup d'état against the Jiaozhou government, kills the Liu Song officials in Jiaozhou, seizes control of the citadel, then declares himself the governor.
  • August – Emperor Ming of Song grants Lưu Bột the title of Jiaozhou governor, along with an army to retake Jiaozhou from Lý Trường Nhân. After landing in Jiaozhou, Lưu Bột is quickly defeated by Lý Trường Nhân, and dies shortly afterward.

469 CE10 entries

  • King Euric defeated the Romano-Breton army of Riothamus at Déols (modern Châteauroux).
  • The Vatican makes a pact with the Salian Frankish king Childeric I, agreeing to call him "the new Constantine" on condition that he accept conversion to Christianity.
  • The Vandals invade Epirus (modern Greece). They are expelled from the Peloponnese (Greece) and in retaliation, the Vandals take 500 hostages at Zakynthos. On the way back to Carthage they are slaughtered.