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Year 470 (CDLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Iordanes (or, less frequently, year 1223 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 470 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
- Revolt of Euric: Roman forces under Paulus and Childeric I stop the Aquitanian Goths at Bourges and briefly recaptured Tours in 470. All the loot they had stolen fell into the hands of Paul. [1]
- The Roman general Paulus is killed shortly afterwards at Angers.
- The church of Santo Stefano Rotondo at Rome is consecrated (approximate date).
Europe
- Odoacer becomes the leader of the Germanic tribes (Herulic – Scirian foederati) in Northern Italy (approximate date).[2]
By topic
Religion
- Mamertus, bishop of Vienne, introduces the Rogation days (a three days’ procession involving prayer to invoke God‘s mercy).
Births
- Buddhapālita, Indian Madhyamaka scholar (d. 550)
- Caesarius, bishop of Arles (or 469; d. 542)[3]
- Dionysius Exiguus, inventor of the Anno Domini era (approximate date)
- Endelienta, Welsh princess and saint (approximate date)
- Ferreolus of Rodez, Roman senator (approximate date)
- Finnian of Clonard, Irish monastic saint (d. 549)
- approximate date – Pope John I
Deaths
- K’inich Popol Hol, king of the Maya city of Copán
- Romanus, Roman usurper in the West Roman Empire (executed)
References
- ^ Gregory of Tours, 2.18
- ^ Cassiodorus (1915). The Gothic History of Jordanes in English Version. Translated by Mierow, Charles Christopher. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 119.
- ^ William Klingshirn, “Church Politics and Chronology: Dating the Episcopacy of Caesarius of Arles”, Revue des Études Augustiniennes, 38 (1992), pp. 80-88