456

Year 456 (CDLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Avitus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1209 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 456 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	430s 440s 450s 460s 470s
Years:	453 454 455 456 457 458 459

456 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	456 CDLVI
Ab urbe condita	1209
Assyrian calendar	5206
Balinese saka calendar	377–378
Bengali calendar	−137
Berber calendar	1406
Buddhist calendar	1000
Burmese calendar	−182
Byzantine calendar	5964–5965
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3152 or 3092     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3153 or 3093
Coptic calendar	172–173
Discordian calendar	1622
Ethiopian calendar	448–449
Hebrew calendar	4216–4217
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	512–513
- Shaka Samvat	377–378
- Kali Yuga	3556–3557
Holocene calendar	10456
Iranian calendar	166 BP – 165 BP
Islamic calendar	171 BH – 170 BH
Javanese calendar	341–342
Julian calendar	456 CDLVI
Korean calendar	2789
Minguo calendar	1456 before ROC 民前1456年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1012
Seleucid era	767/768 AG
Thai solar calendar	998–999
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 582 or 201 or −571     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 583 or 202 or −570

Emperor Yūryaku (456–479)

Events

Roman Empire

• March – Emperor Marcian sends an embassy to Carthage to end the Vandal raids in the Mediterranean from their strongholds in North Africa, and quells disturbances on the Armenian frontier.
• Emperor Avitus sends a Germanic naval expedition under command of Ricimer to defend Sicily. They defeat the Vandals twice: on land at the Battle of Agrigentum (456), and in a sea battle off Corsica.
• Summer – Capua is destroyed by the Vandals. Ricimer is unable to end piracy in the western Mediterranean. Backed by his popularity, he gains the consent of the Senate for an expedition against Avitus.
• September 17 – Remistus, Roman general (magister militum), is besieged with a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace in Classis, outside the city.
• October 5 – The Visigoths under King Theodoric II, acting on orders of Avitus, invade Spain with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by their kings Chilperic I and Gondioc. They defeat the Suebi under King Rechiar on the river Urbicus, near Astorga (Gallaecia); this shatters the power of the Suebi. During the battle Rechiar is captured and later executed.
• October 17 – Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian (comes domesticorum), defeats near Piacenza (northern Italy) the usurper Avitus. They compel him to renounce the purple, and Avitus is obliged to become bishop of Piacenza.
• October 28 – The Visigoths brutally sack the Suebi's capital of Braga (modern Portugal); churches are burnt to the ground.

Britannia

• Saint Patrick leaves Britain once more to evangelise Ireland as a missionary bishop. The Anglo-Saxons call the British nobles to a peace conference at Stonehenge, but turn on them and massacre almost everyone (approximate date).

Asia

• After a 10-year reign, Emperor Ankō is assassinated by the 10-year-old Mayowa no Ōkimi (prince Mayowa), in retaliation for the execution of his father. He is succeeded by his brother Yūryaku who becomes the 21st emperor of Japan.

Births

• Liu Zixun, prince and pretender of Liu Song (d. 466)

Deaths

• September 17 – Remistus, Roman general (magister militum)
• Emperor Ankō of Japan (approximate date)
• Eutyches, presbyter and archimandrite (approximate date)
• Rechiar, king of the Suebi (captured and executed)
• Talorc I, king of the Picts (approximate date)

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