447 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Synod of Toledo: The filioque clause is added to the Nicene Creed
• Merovech becomes king of the Franks
• Battle of the Utus: Attila the Hun defeats the Eastern Romans in an indecisive battle. The Huns invade the Balkans as far as Thermopylae.
• Sofia destroyed by the Huns
• Flavian becomes bishop of Constantinople.
• The first English kingdom in Britain is created when Vortigern grants Thanet in Kent to the Saxon leader Hengist.
• Earthquakes level most of the walls of Constantinople, which are rebuilt within sixty days.

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