Years: 450 451 452 453 - 454 - 455 456 457 458

Decades: 420s 430s 440s - 450s - 460s 470s 480s

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

Events

• September 21 - Roman Emperor Valentinian III assassinates Aetius in his own throne room.
• Battle of Nedao between the Gepids and the Huns.
• The Vandals loot Rome.

Births

• Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths

Deaths

• September 21 - Aetius (assassinated by Valentinian III)
• Dioscorus, deposed patriarch of Alexandria