477, the Glossary
Year 477 (CDLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.[1]
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76 relations: Ab urbe condita, AD 420, Africa (Roman province), Alans, Algeria, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Anno Domini, Armatus, Assassination, Ælle of Sussex, Baekje, Basiliscus, Basina of Thuringia, Calendar era, Carthage, Catholic Church, Celtic Britons, Chinese Buddhism, Common year starting on Saturday, Conscription, Cymenshore, Daoxuan, Dunhuang, Emperor Gao of Southern Qi, Emperor Shun of Song, Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei, England, Gaiseric, Germany, Hamlet (place), Horse collar, Huneric, Julian calendar, Kingdom of Sussex, Latter Deposed Emperor of Liu Song, List of Coptic Orthodox popes, Liu Bing (official), Liu Song dynasty, Magister militum, Mauretania Caesariensis, Mauro-Roman Kingdom, Mediterranean Sea, Mount Song, Munju of Baekje, Mural, Northern Wei, Onoulphus, Pevensey, Puppet ruler, Regent, ... Expand index (26 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.
AD 420
Year 420 (CDXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Africa (Roman province)
Africa was a Roman province on the northern coast of the continent of Africa.
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Alans
The Alans (Latin: Alani) were an ancient and medieval Iranic nomadic pastoral people who migrated to what is today North Caucasus – while some continued on to Europe and later North-Africa.
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.
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Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Armatus
Flavius Armatus (died 477), also known as Harmatius, was an Eastern Roman military commander, magister militum under Emperors Leo I, Basiliscus and Zeno, and consul.
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Assassination
Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important.
Ælle of Sussex
Ælle (also Aelle or Ella) is recorded in much later medieval sources as the first king of the South Saxons, reigning in what is now called Sussex, England, from 477 to perhaps as late as 514.
Baekje
Baekje or Paekche was a Korean kingdom located in southwestern Korea from 18 BC to 660 AD.
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Basiliscus
Basiliscus (Basilískos; died 476/477) was Eastern Roman emperor from 9 January 475 to August 476.
Basina of Thuringia
Basina or Basine (c. 438 – 477) was remembered as a queen of Thuringia in the middle of the fifth century, by much later authors such as especially Gregory of Tours.
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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.
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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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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).
Chinese Buddhism
Chinese Buddhism or Han Buddhism (p) is a Chinese form of Mahayana Buddhism which draws on the Chinese Buddhist canonJiang Wu, "The Chinese Buddhist Canon" in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism, p. 299, Wiley-Blackwell (2014).
Common year starting on Saturday
A common year starting on Saturday is any non-leap year (i.e. a year with 365 days) that begins on Saturday, 1 January, and ends on Saturday, 31 December.
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Conscription
Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.
Cymenshore
Cymenshore was a place in Southern England where, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ælle of Sussex landed in AD 477 and battled the Britons with his three sons Cymen, Wlencing and Cissa, after the first of whom Cymenshore was held to have been named.
Daoxuan
Daoxuan (596–667) was an eminent Tang dynasty Chinese Buddhist monk.
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Dunhuang
Dunhuang is a county-level city in northwestern Gansu Province, Western China.
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Emperor Gao of Southern Qi
Emperor Gao of Southern Qi ((南)齊高帝; 427– 11 April 482), personal name Xiao Daocheng (蕭道成), courtesy name Shaobo (紹伯), childhood name Doujiang (鬥將), was the founding emperor of the Southern Qi dynasty of China.
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Emperor Shun of Song
Emperor Shun of Liu Song ((劉)宋順帝; 8 August 469 – 23 June 479), personal name Liu Zhun (劉準), courtesy name Zhongmou (仲謀), childhood name Zhiguan (智觀), was the last emperor of the Liu Song dynasty of China.
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Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei
Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei ((北)魏孝文帝) (October 13, 467 – April 26, 499), personal name Tuoba Hong (拓拔宏), later Yuan Hong (元宏), was an emperor of China's Northern Wei dynasty, reigning from September 20, 471 to April 26, 499.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Gaiseric
Gaiseric (– 25 January 477), also known as Geiseric or Genseric (Gaisericus, Geisericus; reconstructed Vandalic: *Gaisarīx) was king of the Vandals and Alans from 428 to 477.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village.
Horse collar
A horse collar is a part of a horse harness that is used to distribute the load around a horse's neck and shoulders when pulling a wagon or plough.
Huneric
Huneric, Hunneric or Honeric (died December 23, 484) was King of the (North African) Vandal Kingdom (477–484) and the oldest son of Gaiseric.
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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).
Kingdom of Sussex
The Kingdom of the South Saxons, today referred to as the Kingdom of Sussex (from Suth-sæxe, in turn from Suth-Seaxe or Sūþseaxna rīce, meaning "(land or people of/Kingdom of) the South Saxons"), was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Heptarchy of Anglo-Saxon England.
Latter Deposed Emperor of Liu Song
The Latter Deposed Emperor of Liu Song ((劉)宋後廢帝, also known as Emperor Houfei; 1 March 463 – 1 August 477), also known by his posthumously demoted title of Prince of Cangwu (蒼梧王), personal name Liu Yu (劉昱), courtesy name Derong (德融), childhood name Huizhen (慧震), was an emperor of the Liu Song dynasty of China.
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List of Coptic Orthodox popes
The following is a list of all of the Coptic Orthodox popes who have led the Coptic Orthodox Church and have succeeded the Apostle Mark the Evangelist in the office of Bishop of Alexandria, who founded the Church in the 1st century, and marked the beginning of Christianity in Africa.
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Liu Bing (official)
Liu Bing (劉秉) (433 – 12 January 478), courtesy name Yanjie (彥節), was a high-level official of the Chinese Liu Song dynasty and a member of Liu Song's imperial clan, who near the end of the dynasty made a futile attempt to prevent the general Xiao Daocheng from gaining sufficient power to take the throne.
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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.
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.
Mauretania Caesariensis
Mauretania Caesariensis (Latin for "Caesarean Mauretania") was a Roman province located in present-day Algeria.
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Mauro-Roman Kingdom
The Mauro-Roman kingdom (Latin: Regnum Maurorum et Romanorum), also described as the kingdom of Masuna, was a Christian Berber kingdom which dominated much of the ancient Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis from the capital city of Altava (in present-day Algeria).
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
Mount Song
Mount Song ("lofty mountain") is an isolated mountain range in north central China's Henan Province, along the southern bank of the Yellow River.
Munju of Baekje
Munju of Baekje (?–477, r. 475–477) was the 22nd king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.
Mural
A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate.
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Northern Wei
Wei, known in historiography as the Northern Wei, Tuoba Wei, Yuan Wei and Later Wei, was an imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei.
Onoulphus
Onoulphus, also Onoulf, Unulf and Hunulf (died 493) was a general of the late fifth century of Scirian origin.
Pevensey
Pevensey is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.
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Puppet ruler
A puppet ruler is someone who holds a title that indicates they have political authority, but is loyal to or controlled by outside persons or groups.
Regent
In a monarchy, a regent is a person appointed to govern a state for the time being because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been determined.
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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.
Sacred Mountains of China
The Sacred Mountains of China are divided into several groups.
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Samgeun of Baekje
Samgeun of Baekje (465–479) (r. 477–479) was the 23rd king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.
Saxon Shore
The Saxon Shore (litus Saxonicum) was a military command of the Late Roman Empire, consisting of a series of fortifications on both sides of the Channel.
Shaolin Monastery
Shaolin Monastery (p), also known as Shaolin Temple, is a monastic institution recognized as the birthplace of Chan Buddhism and the cradle of Shaolin Kung Fu.
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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State religion
A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.
Sussex
Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.
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Tax
A tax is a mandatory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization to collectively fund government spending, public expenditures, or as a way to regulate and reduce negative externalities.
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Three Kingdoms of Korea
The Three Kingdoms of Korea or Samhan (Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla) competed for hegemony over the Korean Peninsula during the ancient period of Korean history.
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Thuringia
Thuringia, officially the Free State of Thuringia, is a state of central Germany, covering, the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states.
Timothy II of Alexandria
Pope Timothy II of Alexandria (died 477), also known as Timothy Ailuros (from Greek Αἴλουρος, "cat", because of his small build or in this case probably "weasel"), succeeded twice in supplanting the Chalcedonian patriarch of Alexandria.
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Vandal Kingdom
The Vandal Kingdom (Regnum Vandalum) or Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans (Regnum Vandalorum et Alanorum) was a confederation of Vandals and Alans, which is one of the barbarian kingdoms established under Gaiseric, a Vandal warrior.
Vandals
The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland.
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Weald
The Weald is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.
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Yang Xuanzhi
Yang Xuanzhi was a Chinese official and translator of Mahayana Buddhist texts into the Chinese language during the Tuoba Northern Wei Dynasty in China's Northern and Southern dynastic period.
Yuan Can
Yuan Can (420 – 12 January 478), originally named Yuan Minsun, courtesy name Jingqian, was a high-level official of the Liu Song dynasty who, near the end of the dynasty, made a futile attempt to prevent the general Xiao Daocheng from gaining sufficient power to take the throne.
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Zeno (emperor)
Zeno (Zénōn; – 9 April 491) was Eastern Roman emperor from 474 to 475 and again from 476 to 491.
1461
Year 1461 (MCDLXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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433
Year 433 (CDXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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463
Year 463 (CDLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
See 477 and 463
475
Year 475 (CDLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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495
Year 495 (CDXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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497
Year 497 (CDXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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547
Year 547 (DXLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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645
Year 645 (DCXLV) 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/477
Also known as 477 (year), 477 AD, 477 CE, 477 births, 477 deaths, 477 events, AD 477, Births in 477, Deaths in 477, Events in 477, Year 477.
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