466

Year 466 (CDLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Leo and Tatianus (or, less frequently, year 1219 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 466 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

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By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Leo I repels the Hun invasion of Dacia (modern Romania). They ravage the Balkans but are unable to take Constantinople thanks to the city walls, which are rebuilt and reinforced.
• Tarasicodissa, an Isaurian officer, comes with evidence that Ardabur (magister militum) is forming a conspiracy against Leo I. Ardabur is arrested for treason.
• Tarasicodissa adopts the Greek name of Zeno and marries Ariadne, eldest daughter of Leo I (approximate date).

Europe

• King Theodoric II is killed by his younger brother Euric, who succeeds him on the throne. He conquers Hispania and the harbor city of Marseille (Southern Gaul), adding them to the existing Visigothic Kingdom.^[1]
• Euric sends an embassy to the Eastern Roman Empire for recognition of the Visigoth sovereignty. He forms an alliance with the Suebi and the Vandals.
• A council of twelve townships emerges on the islands in the Venetian lagoon, to form a basic system of governance (approximate date).

Asia

• King Mehama of the Alkhans was victorious in a battle against the Kidarites.^[2]

By topic

Religion

• Peter the Fuller is deposed as patriarch of Antioch; Julian is elected as his successor.

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Births

• Arthur, king of the Britons (approximate date according to legend)
• Clovis I, first king of the Franks (approximate date)
• Xu Mian, high official of the Liang dynasty (d. 535)

Deaths

• January 1 – Emperor Qianfei, emperor of the Liu Song dynasty (b. 449)
• Liu Zixun, prince and pretender of Liu Song (b. 456)
• Lu Huinan, empress dowager of Liu Song (b. 412)
• Theodoret of Cyprus, theologian ^[3]
• Theodoric II, king of the Visigoths^[1]
• Yifu Hun, high official of Northern Wei

References

1. ^ Anderson, Lara; Bean, Rachel; Doe, Helen (2010). Portugal and Spain. Marshall Cavendish. p. 603. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
2. ^ Erdal, Marcel (2023). The Kabul Turks in Jāhiliyya Pottery, in Heritage and Identity in the Turkic World: Contemporary Scholarship in Memory of Ilse Laude-Cirtautas (1926–2019). De Gruyter. ISBN 9783110720259. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
3. ^ Kloppenborg, John S. (2006). The Tenants in the Vineyard: Ideology, Economics, and Agrarian Conflict in Jewish Palestine. Mohr Siebeck. p. 98. Retrieved 18 September 2025.