Years: 443 444 445 446 - 447 - 448 449 450 451

Decades: 410s 420s 430s - 440s - 450s 460s 470s

Centuries: 4th century - 5th century - 6th century

Events

• Synod of Toledo : The filioque clause is added to the Nicene Creed
• Merovech becomes king of the Franks
• Battle of the Utus : Attila the Hun defeats the Eastern Romans in an indecisive battle. The Huns invade the Balkans as far as Thermopylae.
• Sofia destroyed by the Huns
• Flavian becomes bishop of Constantinople.
• The first English kingdom in Britain is created when Vortigern grants Thanet in Kent to the Saxon leader Hengist.
• Earthquakes level most of the walls of Constantinople, which are rebuilt within sixty days.

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