455 - Definition and Overview

Events

• June 2 - Gaiseric leads the Vandals into Rome and plunder the city for two weeks. They depart with countless valuables, spoils of the Temple in Jerusalem brought to Rome by Titus, and the Empress Eudoxia and her daughters Eudocia and Placidia.
• July 9 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the western Roman Empire.
• The Ostrogoths conquer Pannonia and Dalmatia.
• Earliest recorded date at Chichen Itza.
• Skandagupta succeeds Kumaragupta as ruler of the Gupta Empire
• Hengist and Horsa battle Wurtgern at Aylesford. Horsa is killed. (According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)

Births

Deaths

• March 16 - Valentinian III, west Roman emperor, (murdered by former soldiers of Aetius)
• May 31 - Petronius Maximus, west Roman emperor (murdered by a Roman mob)
• Kumaragupta - emperor of the Gupta Empire