This page relates to the year 440 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Asia

• a great center of study Bouddhiste is founded in the plain of the Gange to Nâlandâ.
• the Huns Hephtalites, originating in the Altaï, released from the supervision of the Avars are thrown on the Sogdiane and the Bactriane.
• Offensive Persian on the Arménie. (end in 441)

Empire hunnic

• Countryside of the king of the Huns Bleda against the Byzantine Empire in Pannonia Second (440 - 441). Bleda occupies Castra Constantia and captures Roman traders there, which causes the war. With the autumn, its army crosses the the Danube with Viminacium (Kostolac), which it destroys, then walk towards the west to occupy Margus thanks to the treason of its bishop. The hunnic Empire besieges and occupies Singidunum (Belgrade) and takes along its inhabitants in captivity in his migratory movement.
• the Eastern Romans offer to the hunnic aristocracy luxury items: crimson, red leather working, dates of Phénicie, Indian pepper and other spices, gold plate and money, dresses of silk, pearls and stones invaluable.

Worsen Roman

• September 29th: Beginning of the Pontificate of Holy Leon Ier Large the (fine in 461).

• Beginning of the war of the Vandals against the Sicily.
• the Francs of Clodion Hairy the take Cambrai and Arras and dominate the Somme.
• the emperor of Occident Valentinien II threat of severe sorrows the merchants who do not conform to the official tariff.

• Writing of the ecclesiastical history by Socrate the Scholastic (Socrate of Constantinople)
• Church Saint-Pierre-with-bonds, rested by the empress Eudoxie with Rome.

Births in 440

Death in 440

• February 17th: Mesrob Machtots

• August 19th: Sixth III

Be-X-old: 440 Map-bms: 440