457

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Years:	454 · 455 · 456 · 457 · 458 · 459 · 460

457 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

457 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	457 CDLVII
Ab urbe condita	1210
Assyrian calendar	5207
Bengali calendar	−136
Berber calendar	1407
Buddhist calendar	1001
Burmese calendar	−181
Byzantine calendar	5965–5966
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3153 or 3093     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3154 or 3094
Coptic calendar	173–174
Discordian calendar	1623
Ethiopian calendar	449–450
Hebrew calendar	4217–4218
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	513–514
- Shaka Samvat	378–379
- Kali Yuga	3557–3558
Holocene calendar	10457
Iranian calendar	165 BP – 164 BP
Islamic calendar	170 BH – 169 BH
Javanese calendar	342–343
Julian calendar	457 CDLVII
Korean calendar	2790
Minguo calendar	1455 before ROC 民前1455年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1011
Seleucid era	768/769 AG
Thai solar calendar	999–1000

Emperor Leo I (457–474)

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 (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.
• 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.
• April 1 – Majorian is acclaimed emperor by the Roman army, after defeating 900 Alemanni near Lake Maggiore (Italy).
• 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.

Europe

• Childeric I succeeds his father Merovech as king of the Salian Franks. He establishes his capital at Tournai (modern Belgium) and becomes a foederatus (pl. foederati) of the Western Roman Empire.
• According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 4,000 Britons are slain at Crecganford in battle against Hengist and his son Oisc of Kent.

Persia

• Yazdegerd II dies after a 19-year reign. 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.

By topic

Religion

• Victorius of Aquitaine computes new tables for celebrating Easter.

Births

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

Deaths

• Avitus, emperor of the Western Roman Empire
• January 27 – Flavius Marcian, Roman emperor (b. 392)
• October 28 – Ibas, bishop of Edessa (modern Turkey)
• 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

References