447

This page relates to the year 447 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Asia

  • Beginning of the reign of Kassapa Ier, king of Ceylon (fine in 495). He usurps the capacity in Ceylon. He believes a king-god and makes build his palate at the top of the acropolis of Sigirîya.

Europe

  • January 27th: earthquake which destroys an important part of the Murailles of Constantinople. The walls théodosiens collapse over important lengths, 57 turns are ruined of which those which are used as attic with cereals. The devastated capital is struck by the Famine and the epidemics. Other cities suffer important damage.

  • War of the hunnic Empire against the Eastern Empire. Attila uses for the first time against him the allied Germanic people. The imperial troops stationed with Marcianopolis go to its meeting through the Mésie and manage to bar to him the road at the price of a fatal battle on the river Utus (Saw it, affluent of the the Danube, in Bulgaria). After the battle, the Roman army probably moves in Scythie Mineure (Dobroudja), and threatens on its sides and the back the army of Attila who must progress towards Constantinople by making a turning by Serdica (Sofia). This delay makes it possible to the inhabitants of the capital to repair their fortifications destroyed by an earthquake with the beginning of the year. The troops of Attila then devastate the cities of the empire until the Thermopyles, then Attila must withdraw his troops.
  • the Huns force the Romains to pay a heavy tribute (triple of previously). Actually the negotiations for the payment of the tribute trail in length in do not lead that in 449 to be at once blamed on arrival of Marcien at the capacity (450).
  • the Huns oblige the Romains to be withdrawn from a broad strip of land on the edges of the river.

  • Anatole, Patrice in the East.
  • Beginning of the supposed reign of Mérovée, legendary king of the Frank .
  • the pope asks for the execution of all the enemies of the church.
  • the Annales Cambriae describe the events of the Wales between 447 and 954.

Births in 447

Death in 447

  • Clodion Hairy the (possible date)

Map-bms: 447

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