[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Western Roman Empire

• Capua is destroyed by the Vandals.
• Ricimer beats the Vandals in a sea battle near Corsica.
• 5 October—Theodoric II of the Visigoths, in the name of the emperor Avitus, defeats the Sueves on the river Urbicus near Astorga in Gallaecia; this shatters the power of the Sueves.
• 17 October—The magistri militum Ricimer and Majorian defeat the emperor Avitus, and compel him to renounce the purple and become Bishop of Placentia. Ricimer becomes de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire.

[edit] Eastern Roman Empire

• Emperor Marcian quells disturbances on the Armenian frontier.

[edit] British Isles

• St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary Bishop.

[edit] Births

• Liu Zixun

[edit] Deaths

• Eutyches, Greek theologian