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449 CE

The Second Council of Ephesus opens, chaired by Dioscorus, patriarch of Alexandria. Flavian, patriarch of Constantinople, and Domnus II, patriarch of Antioch, are deposed on August 8. Traditional date – Hengist and Horsa, by tradition chieftains of the Jutes, land at Isle of Thanet, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at the invitation of Vortigern. The Britons form a military alliance with them against the Picts and Scoti. Bede considers this the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain. Emperor Valentinian III sends an emissary to Attila the Hun. The purpose of the meeting is a long-running dispute over spoils of war during the Danube offensive (441–442). Attila claims his lost property, but Valentinian and Flavius Aetius (magister militum) refuse this request.

Conflict & Security

  • Emperor Valentinian III sends an emissary to Attila the Hun. The purpose of the meeting is a long-running dispute over spoils of war during the Danube offensive (441–442). Attila claims his lost property, but Valentinian and Flavius Aetius (magister militum) refuse this request.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • Traditional date – Hengist and Horsa, by tradition chieftains of the Jutes, land at Isle of Thanet, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at the invitation of Vortigern. The Britons form a military alliance with them against the Picts and Scoti. Bede considers this the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.source

Religion & Belief

  • August 3 – The Second Council of Ephesus opens, chaired by Dioscorus, patriarch of Alexandria. Flavian, patriarch of Constantinople, and Domnus II, patriarch of Antioch, are deposed on August 8.source
  • October – A Roman synod repudiates all the decisions of the Second Council of Ephesus.source
  • Maximus II becomes patriarch of Antioch.source
  • Anatolius becomes patriarch of Constantinople.source

Crime & Justice

  • Flavius Orestes, Roman aristocrat, is sent to Attila's court and becomes a high-ranking secretary (notarius). He is the father of the future emperor Romulus Augustulus.source

Births

  • February 25 – Liu Ziye, emperor of the Liu Song dynasty (d. 466)source
  • Eugendus, abbot of Condat Abbey (approximate date)source
  • Kavadh I, king of the Persian Empire (d. 531)source

Deaths

  • August 11 – Flavian, patriarch of Constantinoplesource
  • Eucherius, bishop of Lyon (approximate date)source
  • Hilary, bishop of Arles (b. 403)source