456, the Glossary
Year 456 (CDLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.[1]
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66 relations: Ab urbe condita, Anglo-Saxons, Anno Domini, Archimandrite, Armenia, Astorga, Spain, Avitus, Órbigo, Battle of Agrigentum (456), Battle of Corsica, Bishop, Braga, Burgundians, Calendar era, Capua, Carthage, Celtic Britons, Chilperic I of Burgundy, Corsica, December, Diplomatic mission, Domesticus (Roman Empire), Emperor Ankō, Emperor Yūryaku, Eutyches, Franks, Gallaecia, Germanic peoples, Gondioc, Goths, Julian calendar, Leap year starting on Sunday, List of Galician monarchs, Liu Song dynasty, Liu Zixun, Magister militum, Majorian, March, Marcian, Missionary, Nicene Christianity, Oxford University Press, Piacenza, Picts, Piracy, Porto, Presbyter, Pretender, Ravenna, Rechiar, ... Expand index (16 more) »
Ab urbe condita
Ab urbe condita ('from the founding of the City'), or anno urbis conditae ('in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome.
Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.
Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Archimandrite
The title archimandrite (archimandritēs.), used in Eastern Christianity, originally referred to a superior abbot (hegumenos, ἡγούμενος, present participle of the verb meaning "to lead") whom a bishop appointed to supervise several "ordinary" abbots and monasteries, or as the abbot of some especially great and important monastery.
Armenia
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.
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Astorga, Spain
Astorga (Leonese: Estorga) is a municipality and city of Spain located in the central area of the province of León, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León, southwest of the provincial capital.
Avitus
Eparchius Avitus (died 456/7) was Roman emperor of the Western Empire from July 455 to October 456.
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Órbigo
The Órbigo River is a river in the provinces of León and Zamora, Spain.
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Battle of Agrigentum (456)
The Battle of Agrigentum was fought in 456 A.D. at Agrigentum, now Agrigento in modern-day Sicily.
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Battle of Corsica
The Battle of Corsica was fought between the Vandals and the Western Roman Empire in Corsica in 456.
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.
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Braga
Braga (Bracara) is a city and a municipality, capital of the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province.
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Burgundians
The Burgundians were an early Germanic tribe or group of tribes.
Calendar era
A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one epoch of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one.
Capua
Capua is a city and comune in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, situated north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain.
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Carthage
Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.
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Celtic Britons
The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).
Chilperic I of Burgundy
Chilperic I (died c. 480) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death.
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Corsica
Corsica (Corse; Còrsega) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France.
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December
December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Diplomatic mission
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state.
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Domesticus (Roman Empire)
The origins of the word domesticus can be traced to the late 3rd century of the Late Roman army.
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Emperor Ankō
(401 – 456) was the 20th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Emperor Yūryaku
(417/18 – 479) was the 21st Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Eutyches
Eutyches (Εὐτυχής; c. 380c. 456) or Eutyches of Constantinople.
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Franks
Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.
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Gallaecia
Gallaecia, also known as Hispania Gallaecia, was the name of a Roman province in the north-west of Hispania, approximately present-day Galicia, northern Portugal, Asturias and Leon and the later Kingdom of Gallaecia.
Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
Gondioc
Gondioc (died 473), also called Gunderic and Gundowech, was a King of the Burgundians, succeeding his putative father Gunther in 436.
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Goths
The Goths (translit; Gothi, Gótthoi) were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.
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Julian calendar
The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception).
Leap year starting on Sunday
A leap year starting on Sunday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Sunday, 1 January, and ends on Monday, 31 December.
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List of Galician monarchs
Galicia is an autonomous community and historical nationality in modern-day northwestern Spain on the Iberian Peninsula, which was a major part of the Roman province known as Gallaecia prior to 409.
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Liu Song dynasty
Song, known as Liu Song, Former Song (前宋) or Song of (the) Southern dynasties (南朝宋) in historiography, was an imperial dynasty of China and the first of the four Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period.
Liu Zixun
Liu Zixun (456 – 19 September 466), courtesy name Xiaode (孝德), was an imperial prince and pretender to the throne of the Chinese Liu Song dynasty, who received claims of allegiance from most provinces of the state during the year 466 after his staff made a claim to the throne on his behalf, rivaling that of his uncle Emperor Ming, following the assassination of his half-brother Emperor Qianfei in January 466.
Magister militum
Magister militum (Latin for "master of soldiers";: magistri militum) was a top-level military command used in the late Roman Empire, dating from the reign of Constantine the Great.
Majorian
Majorian (Latin: Iulius Valerius Maiorianus; died 7 August 461) was the Western Roman emperor from 457 to 461.
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March
March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Marcian
Marcian (Marcianus; Μαρκιανός; 392 – 27 January 457) was Roman emperor of the East from 450 to 457.
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
Nicene Christianity
Nicene Christianity includes those Christian denominations that adhere to the teaching of the Nicene Creed, which was formulated at the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325 and amended at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Piacenza
Piacenza (Piaṡëinsa) is a city and comune (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province.
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Picts
The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages.
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Piracy
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.
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Porto
Porto, also known as Oporto, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon.
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Presbyter
Presbyter is an honorific title for Christian clergy.
Pretender
A pretender is someone who claims to be the rightful ruler of a country although not recognized as such by the current government.
Ravenna
Ravenna (also; Ravèna, Ravêna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.
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Rechiar
Rechiar or Flavius Rechiarius (after 415 – December 456) was the third Suevic king of Gallaecia, from 448 until his death, and also the first one to be born in Gallaecia.
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Remistus
Remistus (died September 17, 456) was a general of the Western Roman Empire and commander-in-chief of the army under Emperor Avitus.
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Ricimer
Ricimer (– 19 August 472) was a Romanized Germanic general who effectively ruled the remaining territory of the Western Roman Empire from 456 after defeating Avitus, until his death in 472, with a brief interlude in which he contested power with Anthemius.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Piacenza–Bobbio
The Diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio (Dioecesis Placentina-Bobiensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church.
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Roman numerals
Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.
Roman Senate
The Roman Senate (Senātus Rōmānus) was the highest and constituting assembly of ancient Rome and its aristocracy.
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick (Patricius; Pádraig or; Padrig) was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland.
Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
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Siege
A siege (lit) is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or by well-prepared assault.
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Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury.
Suebi
The Suebi (also spelled Suevi) or Suebians were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic.
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Talorc I
Talorc son of Aniel was a king of the Picts from 452 to 456.
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Theodoric II
Theodoric II, Teodorico in Spanish and Portuguese, (426 – early 466) was the eighth King of the Visigoths, from 453 to 466.
Tyrian purple
Tyrian purple (πορφύρα porphúra; purpura), also known as royal purple, imperial purple, or imperial dye, is a reddish-purple natural dye.
Vandals
The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland.
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Visigoths
The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity.
466
Year 466 (CDLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/456
Also known as 456 (year), 456 AD, 456 CE, 456 births, 456 deaths, 456 events, AD 456, Births in 456, Deaths in 456, Events in 456, Year 456.
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