Militares de Latvia

This page relates to the year 450 Calendrier Julien.

Events

the influence of Teotihuacán is felt in territory Maya, with more than 1100 km: commercial counters and cities are built in the style of Teotihuacán (Kaminaljuyú). To Tikal, stele 31 presents three figures: in the center, Sky of Storm, sovereign of Tikal in 435, surrounded by warriors of Teotihuacán who carry shields decorated with the face of Tlaloc.

Revolts of the Pushyamitra in central India (Amarkantak) repressed by the crown prince Skandagupta.
Frescos of the rock of Sigirîya to Ceylon, temples of Aihole (450 - 650).

Revolt of the Arménie. The king of Perse Yazdgard II undertakes to convert the Armenians with the Mazdéisme, heavy definitively to move away by this conversion the Armenians from Byzance. The Armenians join together an assembly in which takes part, under the presidency of the catholicos, the nobility and the clergy. A unanimous resolution communicated to king de Perse affirms the attachment of the Armenians to the Christian faith while expressing the political tender. Furious, Yazdgard II convenes the nakharars (noble Armenians) with Ctésiphon: they convert with the mazdeism and set out again for Arménie accompanied by 760 Persan magi. As soon as the crossed border, the magi are attacked and dispersed by the made indignant people. The nakharars disavow the conversion which had been torn off to them by the threat. Resistance is entrusted to Vardan, a Mamikonian, which in vain sends an embassy to Byzance. It joins together 60 000 men and prepares with the combat.

Spring: Peace treaty of Anatole and Normus with Attila (the Second peace of Anatole). Attila gives up his territorial requirements, promises not to more worry the emperor with his requests for extraditions, releases the Goth Vigila, suspected of having wanted to assassinate it, for the modest sum of 50 visitors' books, and lets leave without ransom many Roman prisoners.

August 25th: Beginning of the reign of Marcien, Byzantine Emperor (fine in 457). He marries Pulchérie the sister of Théodose II his predecessor deceased of the continuations of an accident of horse the July 28th. One of the first measurements of the imperial couple is to refuse to continue to pay the tribute with Attila.

Marcien is a man of the “blue” party of the senators and aristocrats, who do not want to pay for peace. The “green” minister of Théodose, Chrysaphius, is carried out. The emperor stops paying the tribute paid in Huns. Attila, embourbé in the businesses of Occident, is impotent.

the historian Priscus reports his visit with Attila, visit paid in 449 on behalf of the Empereur of the East Théodose II.
With the loss of the tribute of that and Byzantine Empire of Occident, the empire hun knows financial problems. Attila emits gold solidi, imitating those of Théodose II, to calm its Germanic allies established in the north of the hunnic zone before its countryside in Gaulle.
Churches Midsummer's Day Stoudion and Sainte-Marie of Chalkopratéia to Constantinople. Church Démétrios Saint with Salonique.

In spring, Honoria, sister of the emperor of Occident Valentinien III, retained with Constantinople, request secretly assistance of Attila and him sending his ring. Attila accepts the offer and claims in Valentinien the Gaulle like dowry. Honoria is repatriated urgently with Rome where the court settled into 450, and after a Phony marriage, one makes it disappear.
Attila launches an ultimatum by which he claims in Valentinien III the hand of his sister, Honoria, with for dowry half of the Western Empire. The emperor refuses (autumn).
Attila prepares to invade the Gaulle. As it sent its hunnic cavalry to help the Arménie NS revolted against the Perses, it mobilizes against Gaulle his allies, with majority Germanic: Gépides, Ostrogoths, Skires, Suèves, Alamans, Hérules, Thuringes, as well as Frank and Burgondes.
Division of the Frank mentioned by Priscus: with died of their king, his two sons fight for the capacity. Elder (perhaps Childéric) the request the protection of Attila, youngest that of Aetius. Priscus meets this last in Rome with autumn 450. According to Gregoire de Tours, Childéric would have to flee in Thuringe, then allied with the Huns, during eight years. It would have returned as a Gaulle towards 457. He is perhaps the oldest son of Mérovée, which seeks the alliance of Attila because of the rebellion of his/her brother, and he will undoubtedly fight with the battles of Mauriacum against the Visigoths.

the king goth Ermanaric obliges the Hérules to pass in Hispanie towards 450, in its Royaume Visigoth.
the Rhétie is abandoned with the Germains.
First Germanic invasions of the United Kingdom according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronic (Saxon, Angles and Jutes are directed by Hengist and Horsa).
Saint Patrick founds évêché of Armagh in Ireland.
Monastery of Saint-Claude, in the the Jura, rested by saint Romain and saint Lupicin.

Famine in Italy.
progressive Collapse of the imperial administrative authority to the profit of the Christian ecclesiastical hierarchy.

Baptistry of Orthodoxe the with Ravenne.
the art of the mosaic triumphs with the mausoleum that was made build Galla Placidia with Ravenne.
epic Poetry in Germanic (legends of Sigurd, Ingold, etc)
Of the the Rhine to the the Loire, between 450 and 550, appears a new type of burial associating the Roman practice of the sarcophagus and the Germanic practice to bury dead equipped it and armed (cemeteries “with lines”). The objects deposited in the tombs vary according to the areas.

July 28th: Théodose II the Young person, Byzantine Emperor, of a fall of horse.
November 27th: Official reception Placidia mother of the emperor Valentinien III and girl of Théodose Ier.
December 2nd: Pierre-Chrysologue

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