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Roman Empire

• Roman general Flavius Aetius begins, in Gaul, a campaign against the Burgundians, following their raids into neighbouring Gallia Belgica by King Gunther.
• November 14 - Emperor Theodosius II orders a new edict for the death penalty of all heretics and pagans in the Empire. Judaism is considered a legal non-Christian religion.

  Africa

• King Genseric concludes a peace treaty with the Romans, under which the Vandals retain Mauretania and a part of Numidia as foederati of Rome.
• The Vandals use Hippo Regius as a port for their expeditions. Genseric establishes a merchant fleet to transport goods between Africa and the Italian mainland.
• Huneric, eldest son of Genseric, is sent as a child hostage to the court at Ravenna to secure the alliance with the Western Roman Empire.

  Mesoamerica

• August 10 - A figure known to Mayanist scholars as "Casper" begins a 52-year reign in Palenque.
• December 8 marks the beginning of the 9th Baktun in Mesoamerica. There is a change in political alliances just preceding the event when royal personages from the Mexican highland city of Teotihuacan consolidate power individually as Mayan kings.

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Religion

• August 3 - Theodosius II exiles Nestorius, archbishop of Constantinople, to a monastery in the Libyan desert at the behest of his sister Pulcheria.
• Ibas is elected bishop of Edessa. He becomes associated with the growth of Nestorianism and openly preaching heretical doctrines in public.

  Births

Deaths

• John Cassian, Desert Father and theologian
• Pelagius, British monk
• Philip of Side, Christian church historian
• Rabbula, bishop of Edessa