Disasters & Accidents in the 5th century

12 sourced entries, 401 CE to 475 CE, oldest first. Also see Disasters & Accidents across every century or everything else in the 5th century.

• 401The Temple of Artemis near Selçuk in Ephesus is dismantled.source
• 405Stilicho, Roman general (magister militum), orders the Sibylline Books to be burned, according to the Roman poet Rutilius Claudius Namatianus.source
• 405Emperor Honorius closes the Flavian Amphitheatre (Colosseum), in an austerity move that abolishes amusements.source
• 410The city of Aléria on the island of Corsica is devastated by a huge fire, destroying its port and most of its inhabitants.source
• 441Chrysaphius, chief minister, persuades Emperor Theodosius II at Constantinople to dismiss his sister Pulcheria, for her policy of exiling the Jews, and destroying their synagogues.source
• 446The Cor Tewdws (College of Theodosius), Llantwit Major (Wales), is supposedly burned down by Irish pirates.source
• 448Theodosius II orders all non-Christian books burned.source
• 450All the Temples of Aphrodisias (City of Goddess Aphrodite) are demolished and its libraries burned down. The city is renamed Stauroupolis (City of the Cross).source
• 456October 28 – The Visigoths brutally sack the Suebi's capital of Braga (modern Portugal); churches are burnt to the ground. Rechiar flees wounded from the battlefield.source
• 459King Vortigern is burnt to death, while being besieged by a Romano-British force under Ambrosius Aurelianus at Ganarew (Herefordshire).source
• 465September 2 – A fire begins in Constantinople and, over the next six days, destroys the buildings in eight of the 14 sections into which the Eastern Roman Imperial capital had been divided.source
• 475Great fire in Constantinople with loss of Palace of Lausus and - along with it - the famous Zeus from Olympia.source