460s

The 460s decade ran from January 1, 460, to December 31, 469.

460

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By place

Roman Empire

• 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.
• Majorian invades Hispania; his generals Nepotianus and Sunieric lead a Visigoth army into Gallaecia. The Suebi are defeated and Lusitania (modern Portugal) is conquered.
• King Genseric, fearing a Roman invasion, tries to negotiate peace with Majorian, who refuses. The Vandals devastate Mauretania and Moorish warriors poison the wells.
• 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.^[1]
• 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).

Europe

• March 27 (night) – Swabians invade the Gallic city of Lugo. The governor is killed.

Asia

• The Hepthalites (White Huns) conquer the remnants of the Kushan Empire and enter India.
• A famine that will last for several years begins in the Persian Empire (approximate date).

By topic

Art

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

Religion

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

Significant people

Births

Transcluding articles: 460, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 467, 468, and 469

460

• Budic II, king of Brittany (approximate date)
• Hilderic, king of the Vandals and Alans (approximate date)
• Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire (approximate date)

461

• Hilderic, king of the Vandals (approximate date)
• Romulus Augustulus, emperor of the Western Roman Empire

462

• Anicia Juliana, daughter of Olybrius
• Muryeong, king of Baekje (Korea)

463

• Houfei Di, emperor of the Liu Song dynasty (d. 477)

464

• Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf, great-grandfather of Mohammed (approximate date)
• Wu Di, Chinese emperor of the Liang dynasty (d. 549)^[8]

465

• July 5 – Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I, Maya ruler of Palenque (d. 524)
• Dubricius, bishop and saint (approximate date)
• Liberius, Roman aristocrat (approximate date)
• Procopius of Gaza, Christian sophist and rhetorician (approximate date)^[9]
• Severus, patriarch of Antioch (approximate date)
• Zacharias Rhetor, bishop and ecclesiastic historian (approximate date)^[9]

466

• Arthur, king of the Britons (approximate date)
• Clovis I, first king of the Franks (approximate date)
• Xu Mian, high official of the Liang dynasty (d. 535)

467

• October 13 – Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei, emperor of Northern Wei (d. 499)
• Cerdic, first king of Anglo-Saxon Wessex (approximate date)
• Leo II, Byzantine emperor (d. 474)^[10]
• Emperor Shun of Liu Song, Chinese emperor of Liu Song (d. 479)

468

• Nectan of Hartland, Welsh prince and saint (approximate date)

469

• Zhou She, high official of the Liang dynasty (d. 524)

Deaths

Transcluding articles: 460, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 467, 468, and 469

460

• October 20 – Aelia Eudocia, Roman empress and wife of Theodosius II
• Ardaric, king of the Gepids (approximate date)
• Juqu Anzhou, prince of the Chinese Xiongnu states Northern Liang

461

• August 7 – Majorian, emperor of the Western Roman Empire
• November 10 – Pope Leo I
• Palladius, first bishop of Ireland (approximate date)

462

• Lóegaire mac Néill, High King of Ireland

463

• Frumar, Suevic king of Galicia (approximate date)
• Richimund, Suevic king of Galicia (approximate date)
• Romanus of Condat, hermit and saint (approximate date)

464

• Aegidius, Roman general (magister militum) (approximate date)
• Conall Gulban, king of Tir Chonaill (approximate date)
• Wang Xianyuan, empress and wife of Xiao Wu Di (b. 427)
• Xiao Wu Di, emperor of the Liu Song dynasty (b. 430)

465

• May 5 – Gerontius, Archbishop of Milan
• June 20 – Wen Cheng Di, emperor of Northern Wei (b. 440)
• August 15 – Libius Severus, emperor of the Western Roman Empire
• Buliugu Li, official of the Northern Wei dynasty
• Eógan mac Néill, king of Tír Eoghain (Ireland)
• Liu Chuyu, princess of the Liu Song dynasty^[11]

466

• January 1 – Emperor Qianfei, emperor of the Liu Song dynasty (b. 449)
• Liu Zixun, prince and pretender of Liu Song (b. 456)
• Lu Huinan, empress dowager of Liu Song (b. 412)
• Theodoric II, king of the Visigoths
• Yifu Hun, high official of Northern Wei

467

• Benignus of Armagh, Irish bishop (approximate date)
• Skandagupta, ruler of the Gupta Empire (India)

468

• February 29, – Pope Hilarius
• Dengizich, king of the Huns (approximate date)
• Gunabhadra, Indian Buddhist scholar-monk (b. 394)
• Marcellinus, Roman general (magister militum)

469

• Dengizich, king of the Huns (approximate date)
• Hydatius, bishop of Aquae Flaviae (approximate date)

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