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Year 479 (
CDLXXIX) was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Zeno without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1232 ''
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. It is an exp ...
''). The denomination 479 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.
Events
By place
Britannia
* Ambrosius Aurelianus, war leader of the Romano-British, is proclaimed king of the Britons
The title King of the Britons ( cy, Brenin y Brythoniaid, la, Rex Britannorum) was used (often retrospectively) to refer to the most powerful ruler among the Celtic Britons, both before and after the period of Roman Britain up until the Norma ...
(according to '' Historia Regum Britanniae''). He rules probably in the south of Britain, and continues the war against the Anglo-Saxons.
Europe
* King Theodoric the Great starts a 4-year campaign against the Byzantine Empire. The Ostrogoths ravage the Roman provinces (Moesia
Moesia (; Latin: ''Moesia''; el, Μοισία, Moisía) was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River, which included most of the territory of modern eastern Serbia, Kosovo, north-eastern Alban ...
and Thrace), and threaten the capital of Constantinople itself.
* Julius Nepos, former emperor of the Western Roman Empire, plots military plans in Dalmatia
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against Odoacer
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, hoping to regain control of Italy himself.
Asia
* Summer – The Song Dynasty ends and the Southern Qi Dynasty
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begins in southern China
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. Emperor Shun Di is forced to abandon the throne and Qi Gao Di becomes the first ruler of Southern Qi. Later former Emperor Shun and empress Wang Zhenfeng
Wang Zhenfeng (王貞風) (436 – 12 November 479), formally Empress Gong (恭皇后, literally "the respectful empress"), was an empress of the China, Chinese Liu Song dynasty. Her husband was Emperor Ming of Song (Liu Yu). She served as regen ...
are killed by the imperial guard, near the vicinity of the capital Jiankang
Jiankang (), or Jianye (), as it was originally called, was capital city of the Eastern Wu (229–265 and 266–280 CE), the Jin dynasty (317–420 CE) and the Southern Dynasties (420–552), including the Chen dynasty (557–589 CE). Its walls ...
.
* Dongseong becomes king of the Korean kingdom of Baekje.
Births
*
Ruan Xiaoxu
Ruan may refer to:
Buildings
* Ruan Center, office building in Des Moines, Iowa
* John Ruan House, historic mansion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Places
* Ruan, County Clare, Ireland
* Ruan, Loiret, France
* Mont Ruan, Switzerland
*Ruan Major ...
,
bibliography
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writer (d.
536
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)
Deaths
*
Samgeun, king of
Baekje (
Korea)
*
Shun Di, emperor of
Liu Song (b.
467
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)
*
Wang Zhenfeng
Wang Zhenfeng (王貞風) (436 – 12 November 479), formally Empress Gong (恭皇后, literally "the respectful empress"), was an empress of the China, Chinese Liu Song dynasty. Her husband was Emperor Ming of Song (Liu Yu). She served as regen ...
, empress of Liu Song (b.
436
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)
*
Yuan He
Yuan He (源賀) (407 – October 22, 479), né Tufa Poqiang (禿髮破羌), Xianbei name Hedouba (賀豆跋), formally Prince Xuan of Longxi (隴西宣王), was a high-ranking official of the Xianbei-led Northern Wei, Northern Wei dynasty of China ...
, high official of
Northern Wei
Wei (), known in historiography as the Northern Wei (), Tuoba Wei (), Yuan Wei () and Later Wei (), was founded by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei. The first of the Northern and Southern dynasties#Northern dynasties, Northern dynasties ...
(b.
403
Year 403 ( CDIII) 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 Theodosius and Rumoridus (or, less frequently, year 1156 '' Ab ...
)
*
Yūryaku, emperor of
Japan
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References
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