457 Explained

Year 457 (CDLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantinus and Rufus^[1] (or, less frequently, year 1210 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 457 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

Roman Empire

• January 27  - Emperor Marcian dies at Constantinople, possibly of foot gangrene, an infection contracted during a long religious journey. He is buried in the Church of the Holy Apostles, together with his late wife Pulcheria.^{[2] [3]}
• February 7  - Leo I, a Thraco-Roman (or Dacian) high-ranking officer, becomes the new emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, reigning for nearly 20 years. He is first to accept the Byzantine crown from the hands of the patriarch of Constantinople.^{[4] [5]}
• April 1  - Majorian is acclaimed emperor by the Roman army, after defeating 900 Alemanni near Lake Maggiore (Italy).^{[6] [7]}
• December 28  - Majorian is crowned emperor of the Western Roman Empire and recognized by Pope Leo I. His rule is accepted in Italy, Dalmatia and some territories in Northern Gaul.^[8]

Europe

• According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 4,000 Britons are slain at Crecganford in battle against Hengist and his son Oisc of Kent.^[9]

Persia

• Yazdegerd II dies after a 19-year reign.^[10] He is succeeded by his son Hormizd III who seizes the Persian throne. His elder brother Peroz I rebels against him in Sistan (Iran). After months of civil war he defeats Hormizd and becomes the seventeenth Sasanian king of the Persian Empire.^[11]

By topic

Religion

• Victorius of Aquitaine computes new tables for celebrating Easter.^[12]

Births

• Leontia, Roman empress and wife of Anthemius (d. 479)
• Medardus, bishop of Vermandois (approximate date)

Deaths

• January 27  - Flavius Marcian, Roman emperor (b. 392)
• October 28  - Ibas, bishop of Edessa (modern Turkey)
• Avitus, emperor of the Western Roman Empire
• Merovech, king of the Salian Franks (approximate date)
• Palladius, first bishop of Ireland (approximate date)
• Saint Proterius, Patriarch of Alexandria
• Theodoret of Cyrrhus, bishop and theologian
• Valerian of Abbenza, bishop and saint (b. 377)
• Yazdegerd II, king of the Persian Empire

Notes and References

1. Book: School of Irish Learning (Dublin). Eriu : the journal of the School of Irish Learning, devoted to Irish philology and literature. 1907. Royal Irish Academy. 122. The Exordium of the 'Annales Cambriae'. 612608668.
2. Croke. Brian. 1978. The date and circumstances of Marcian's decease. Byzantion. 48. 5–9. 44170550.
3. Web site: Nathan . Geoffrey S. . Roman Emperors – DIR Marcian . www.roman-emperors.org . 4 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180706012537/http://www.roman-emperors.org/Marcian.htm. 6 July 2018. 1998.
4. Book: Bury, John Bagnell. John Bagnell Bury. History of the Later Roman Empire: from the death of Theodosius I to the death of Justinian. 1. Dover Publications. 1958. Dover books. 978-0-486-20398-0.
5. [Edward Gibbon]
6. Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina, V.373–385.
7. Fasti vindobonenses priores, 583.
8. Timothy Barnes, "Review: Late Roman Prosopography: Between Theodosius and Justinian", Phoenix, vol. 37, no. 3 (1983), pp. 268–269
9. Book: Brayley. Edward Wedlake. The Beauties of England and Wales; or, Original Delineations Topographical, Historical and Descriptive of Each Country. Vol.VII.. 1808. Thomas Maiden Sherbourn-Lane. London. 416. Hathi Trust Digital Library. 9 March 2019.
10. Book: Pourshariati, Parvaneh. Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran. London and New York. I.B. Tauris. 2008. 978-1-84511-645-3. 70.
11. Book: Bonner, Michael. The Last Empire of Iran. 2020. Gorgias Press. New York. 10.31826/9781463240516. 978-1-4632-0616-1. 124. 219805346.
12. Book: Blackburn . Bonnie J. . Holford-Strevens . Leofranc . The Oxford Companion to the Year . 1999 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-214231-3. 793.