Events

By Place

Eastern Roman Empire

• Battle of the Utus: Attila the Hun meets the Romans in an indecisive battle. The Huns invade the Balkans as far as Thermopylae.
• Sofia is destroyed by the Huns.
• Earthquakes level most of the walls of Constantinople, which are rebuilt within sixty days.

Europe

• Merovech becomes king of the Franks.
• The first English kingdom in Britain is created when Vortigern grants Thanet in Kent to the Saxon leader Hengist.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

• The first entry in the Annales Cambriæ refers to this year.

Religion

• Flavian becomes bishop of Constantinople.
• Synod of Toledo: The filioque clause is added to the Nicene Creed.

Births

Deaths

• 27 November - Bishop Secundinus/St Seachnaill of Ireland
• Juqu Mujian