468
This article is about the year 468. For the number, see 468 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 4th century – 5th century – 6th century |
| Decades: | 430s 440s 450s – 460s – 470s 480s 490s |
| Years: | 465 466 467 – 468 – 469 470 471 |
| 468 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 468 CDLXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1221 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5218 |
| Bengali calendar | −125 |
| Berber calendar | 1418 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1012 |
| Burmese calendar | −170 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5976–5977 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3164 or 3104 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3165 or 3105 |
| Coptic calendar | 184–185 |
| Discordian calendar | 1634 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 460–461 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4228–4229 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 524–525 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 390–391 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3569–3570 |
| Holocene calendar | 10468 |
| Iranian calendar | 154 BP – 153 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 159 BH – 158 BH |
| Julian calendar | 468 CDLXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 2801 |
| Minguo calendar | 1444 before ROC 民前1444年 |
| Seleucid era | 779/780 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1010–1011 |
Pope Simplicius (468–483)
Year 468 (CDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Anthemius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1221 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 468 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.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- Emperor Leo I assembles a massive naval expedition at Constantinople, which costs 64,000 pounds of gold (more than a year's revenue) and consists of over 1,100 ships carrying 100,000 men. It is the greatest fleet ever sent against the Vandals and brings Leo near to bankruptcy.
- Emperor Anthemius sends a Roman expedition under command of Marcellinus. He expels the Vandals from Sicily and retakes Sardinia. The Eastern general Heraclius of Edessa lands with a force on the Libyan coast east of Carthage and advances from Tripolitania.
- Battle of Cape Bon: The Vandals defeat the Roman navy under Basiliscus anchored at Promontorium Mercurii, 45 miles from Carthage (Tunisia). During peace negotiations Genseric uses fire ships, filling them with brushwood and pots of oil, destroying 700 imperial galleys. Basiliscus escapes with his surviving fleet to Sicily, harassed all the way by Moorish pirates.
- August – Marcellinus is murdered in Sicily, probably at the instigation of his political rival, Ricimer. Heraclius is left to fight alone against the Vandals; after a 2-year campaign in the desert he returns to Constantinople.
- Basiliscus returns to Constantinople after a disastrous expedition against the Vandals. He is forced to seek sanctuary in the church of Hagia Sophia to escape the wrath of the people. Leo I gives him imperial pardon, but banishes him for 3 years to Heraclea Sintica (Thrace).
- Dengizich, son of Attila the Hun, sends an embassy to Constantinople to demand money. Leo I offers the Huns settlement in Thrace in exchange for recognition of his authority. Dengizich refuses and crosses the Danube.
- Roman forces under Anagast defeat the Huns at the Utus River (Bulgaria). Dengizich is killed and his head is paraded through the streets of Constantinople. Stuck on the end of a wooden pole, it is displayed above the Xylokerkos Gate.[1]
- The Vandals reconquer Sicily, administering a decisive defeat to the Western forces.
By topic
Religion
- February 28 – Pope Hilarius dies at Rome after a 6½-year reign and is succeeded by Simplicius as the 47th pope.
Births
- Nectan of Hartland, Welsh prince and saint (approximate date)
Deaths
- Dengizich, king of the Huns (approximate date)
- Gunabhadra, Indian Buddhist scholar-monk (b. 394)
- Marcellinus, Roman general (magister militum)
- February 28, – Pope Hilarius
References
- ↑ The End of Empire (p. 269). Christopher Kelly, 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-33849-2
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