460

This article is about the year 460. For the locomotive, see 4-6-0.

Year 460 (CDLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magnus and Apollonius (or, less frequently, year 1213 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 460 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	440s 450s 460s 470s 480s
Years:	457 458 459 460 461 462 463

460 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	460 CDLX
Ab urbe condita	1213
Assyrian calendar	5210
Balinese saka calendar	381–382
Bengali calendar	−133
Berber calendar	1410
Buddhist calendar	1004
Burmese calendar	−178
Byzantine calendar	5968–5969
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3157 or 2950     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3158 or 2951
Coptic calendar	176–177
Discordian calendar	1626
Ethiopian calendar	452–453
Hebrew calendar	4220–4221
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	516–517
- Shaka Samvat	381–382
- Kali Yuga	3560–3561
Holocene calendar	10460
Iranian calendar	162 BP – 161 BP
Islamic calendar	167 BH – 166 BH
Javanese calendar	345–346
Julian calendar	460 CDLX
Korean calendar	2793
Minguo calendar	1452 before ROC 民前1452年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1008
Seleucid era	771/772 AG
Thai solar calendar	1002–1003
Tibetan calendar	阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 586 or 205 or −567     — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 587 or 206 or −566

The Baptistry of Neon (Ravenna)

Events

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.

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 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

References

1. Merrills, Andy (February 17, 2017), Buchet, Christian; Arnaud, Pascal; de Souza, Philip (eds.), "Rome and the Vandals", The Sea in History - The Ancient World (1 ed.), Boydell and Brewer Limited, p. 506, doi:10.1017/9781782049081.041, ISBN 978-1-78204-908-1, retrieved August 3, 2020