Year 419 (
CDXIX) was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar
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. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Monaxius and Plinta (or, less frequently, year 1172 ''
Ab urbe condita
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''). The denomination 419 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the
Anno Domini
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calendar era
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became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* A law is passed, making it illegal for anybody in the Western or Eastern Roman Empires, to instruct barbarians in the art of shipbuilding.
China
* Jin Gongdi, age 33, succeeds his developmentally disabled
Developmental disability is a diverse group of chronic conditions, comprising mental or physical impairments that arise before adulthood. Developmental disabilities cause individuals living with them many difficulties in certain areas of life, espe ...
brother Jin Andi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Andi is strangled
Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and is one of two main ways that hanging ...
by orders of the warlord Liu Yu.
Births
*
July 2 –
Valentinian III, emperor of the
Western Roman Empire
The Western Roman Empire comprised the western provinces of the Roman Empire at any time during which they were administered by a separate independent Imperial court; in particular, this term is used in historiography to describe the period fr ...
(d.
455
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Year 455 ( CDLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valentinianus and Anthemius (or, less frequently, year 1 ...
)
Deaths
*
Jin Andi, emperor of the
Eastern Jin Dynasty (b.
382
Year 382 ( CCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Antonius and Syagrius (or, less frequently, year 1135 ''Ab urb ...
)
References
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