419 CE
Jin Gongdi, age 33, succeeds his developmentally disabled brother Jin Andi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Andi is strangled by orders of the warlord Liu Yu. A law is passed, prohibiting the act of instructing barbarians on shipbuilding in the Western and Eastern Roman Empires.
Geopolitics & Diplomacy
- A law is passed, prohibiting the act of instructing barbarians on shipbuilding in the Western and Eastern Roman Empires.source
Conflict & Security
- Jin Gongdi, age 33, succeeds his developmentally disabled brother Jin Andi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Andi is strangled by orders of the warlord Liu Yu.source
Births
- July 2 – Valentinian III, emperor of the Western Roman Empire (d. 455)source
Deaths
- Jin Andi, emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (b. 382)source