439

This page relates to the year 439 Calendrier Julien.

Events

In China, the Tabghatch annex the Gansu from where they drive out a group of Xiongnu towards Tourfan (439 - 460).

October 19th: The king of the Vandales Genséric takes Carthage by surprised and establishes its capital there. A little later it invests the Corsica , the Sardinia (456), the Balearic Islands and the Sicily (440). The supply of Rome and in danger. Valentinien III makes restore the walls of Naples and Rome and promises his/her daughter in marriage with the son of Genséric.
the Vandales exproprient the great fields around Carthage and exile their owners in Maurétanie.
Genséric installs at once a church arienne in Carthage and imposes the language vandal like official language.
“Treasure of Carthage”, discovered in a tomb of Koudiat-Zateur in Tunisia, in an employed again Roman sarcophagus, identified like Sarmate or Alain E of the time vandal and dated according to 439 (plate-buckles of belt partitioned out of gold, of type of Kertch, in the Crimea, spangles of veil of the hunnic type).

the Visigoths seize Toulouse. Litorius and its Huns besieges the city, but Litorius falls between the hands from the enemy, and the Roman army remained without chief loses the battle in front of Toulouse. The emperor recognizes the independence of the Visigoths.
Concile interprovincial of Laugh (Provence).
a bishop is named with Vence and Cimiez.
“ On the government of god ”, Salvien (439 - 451).

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