Year 424 ( CDXXIV) was a

leap year starting on Tuesday A leap year starting on Tuesday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Tuesday, 1 January, and ends on Wednesday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are FE. The most recent year of such kind was 2008 and the n ...

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Julian calendar The Julian calendar, proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandr ...

. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Castinus and Victor (or, less frequently, year 1177 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 424 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the

Anno Domini The terms (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The term is Medieval Latin and means 'in the year of the Lord', but is often presented using "our Lord" instead of "the Lord", ...

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. For example, it is the year as per the Gregorian calendar, which numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Copti ...

became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Roman Empire

October 23 Events Pre-1600 *4004 BC – James Ussher's proposed creation date of the world according to the Bible. *42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat an army under Brutus in the second part of the Batt ...

– Emperor

Theodosius II Theodosius II ( grc-gre, Θεοδόσιος, Theodosios; 10 April 401 – 28 July 450) was Roman emperor for most of his life, proclaimed ''augustus'' as an infant in 402 and ruling as the eastern Empire's sole emperor after the death of his ...

nominates his cousin Valentinian, age 5, the imperial title '' nobilissimus Caesar'' ("most noble") of the Western Roman Empire. Valentinian is betrothed to Theodosius's own daughter Licinia Eudoxia, who is only 2 years old. * Roman usurper Joannes sends Flavius Aetius, governor of the Palace (''Curopalates, cura palatii''), to the Huns to ask for their assistance. After negotiating, he returns to Italy with a large force. * Winter – A Late Roman army, Roman army under the command of Ardabur (consul 427), Ardaburius leaves Thessaloniki, Thessalonica (modern Central Macedonia) and marches for Northern Italy, where they make their base at Aquileia.

China

* Emperor Shao of Liu Song, Shao Di, age 18, is deposed by a group of high officials and succeeded by his younger brother Emperor Wen of Liu Song, Wen Di as emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty. Shao is exiled to Suzhou, and later killed by an Assassination, assassin.

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