453

Year 453 (CDLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Opilio and Vincomalus (or, less frequently, year 1206 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 453 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:
Decades:
Years:
453 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar453
CDLIII
Ab urbe condita1206
Assyrian calendar5203
Balinese saka calendar374–375
Bengali calendar−140
Berber calendar1403
Buddhist calendar997
Burmese calendar−185
Byzantine calendar5961–5962
Chinese calendar壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
3149 or 3089
     to 
癸巳年 (Water Snake)
3150 or 3090
Coptic calendar169–170
Discordian calendar1619
Ethiopian calendar445–446
Hebrew calendar4213–4214
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat509–510
 - Shaka Samvat374–375
 - Kali Yuga3553–3554
Holocene calendar10453
Iranian calendar169 BP – 168 BP
Islamic calendar174 BH – 173 BH
Javanese calendar338–339
Julian calendar453
CDLIII
Korean calendar2786
Minguo calendar1459 before ROC
民前1459年
Nanakshahi calendar−1015
Seleucid era764/765 AG
Thai solar calendar995–996
Tibetan calendar阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
579 or 198 or −574
     to 
阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
580 or 199 or −573
The Hunnic Empire (453)

Events

Byzantium

  • July Empress Pulcheria dies of natural causes at Constantinople. She has commissioned many new churches in the city during her reign. Her death leaves Flavius Aspar (magister militum) as the dominant influence on her husband, Marcian.
  • Anthemius marries Marcia Euphemia, daughter of Marcian, and is elevated to the rank of comes. He is sent to the Danubian frontier to rebuild the border defences.
  • The late Attila's other sons Dengizich and Ernakh, establish their kingdoms north of the Black Sea (Ukraine), supported by vassal states.

Europe

  • Attila the Hun is found dead in bed, after a wedding feast with the Goth princess Ildica. He dies of a nosebleed at his Hungarian stronghold, drowning in his own blood at age 47 (approximate). The Huns celebrate a strava (lamentation) over his burial place with great feasting. Attila's son Ellac is appointed successor, which his brothers Dengizich and Ernakh refuse, dividing the Hunnic Empire
  • Theodoric II succeeds his brother Thorismund as king of the Visigoths, Thorismund having been murdered, after violating the alliance with the Western Roman Empire.

Asia

  • Ankō obtains the throne of his father Ingyō after the traditional order of succession and becomes the 20th emperor of Japan. His eldest brother Kinashi commits suicide, after being accused of an incestuous relationship with his sister Karu no Ōiratsume (according to the Nihon Shoki).

Births

Deaths

  • July Pulcheria, Byzantine Empress
  • Attila the Hun, ruler of the Hunnic Empire (b.406)
  • Helian, empress of Northern Wei
  • Ingyō, emperor of Japan (approximate date)
  • Kinashi, prince of Japan (approximate date)
  • Liu Jun, prince of the Liu Song Dynasty (b. 429)
  • Liu Shao, emperor of Liu Song (b. 426)
  • Pan, concubine of Wen Di
  • Thorismund, king of the Visigoths
  • Wen Di, emperor of Liu Song (b. 407)
  • Yin Yuying, empress of Liu Song

References

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