428

Events 
 Roman Empire 
 Bonifacius, Roman governor of Africa, asks for help from the Vandals in his revolt.
 Flavius Felix is elected consul for the Western Empire.
 Europe 
 King Gunderic, age 49, dies after a reign of 21 years.  He is succeeded by his half-brother Genseric.
 King Vortigern asks Germanic warriors to help him strengthen his position in Britain.  He hires Saxons as mercenaries to fight against the Picts and the Scots beyond Hadrian's Wall.
 Chlodio, king of the Salian Franks, invades Northern Gaul.  He defeats the Roman army at Cambrai. He extends his kingdom south to the River Somme. Tournai (modern Belgium) becomes his residence.
 Asia 
 Artaxias IV, last king of Greater Armenia, is deposed by Bahram V. The Arshakuni Dynasty ends and the kingdom becomes a province of the Persian Empire.

 By topic 
 Astronomy 
 October 26 – The planet Venus occults the planet Jupiter.

 Religion 
 April 10 – Nestorius is made patriarch of Constantinople. He preaches a new doctrine that will be called Nestorianism. It comes under immediate attack from pope Celestine I and Cyril of Alexandria.
 Hydatius becomes bishop of Aquae Flaviae in Gallaecia (modern Chaves) in Portugal.
 John succeeds Theodotus as patriarch of Antioch, and gives his support to Nestorius.
 Euthymius the Great builds a monastery in Palestine, near the Dead Sea.

 Births 

 Tuoba Huang, prince of the Xianbei state Northern Wei (d. 451)

 Deaths 

 Gunderic, king of the Vandals and Alans (b. 379)
 Qifu Chipan, prince of the Xianbei state Western Qin
 Theodore of Mopsuestia, bishop and theologian

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