455

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
451 452 453 454 - 455 - 456 457 458 459

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
420s 430s 440s - 450s - 460s 470s 480s

align="center" | Centuries:
4th century - 5th century - 6th century

Events

June 2 - Gaiseric leads the Vandals into Rome and plunder the city for two weeks. They depart with countless valuables, spoils of the Temple in Jerusalem brought to Rome by Titus, and the Empress Eudoxia and her daughters Eudocia and Placidia.
July 9 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the western Roman Empire.
The Ostrogoths conquer Pannonia and Dalmatia.
Earliest recorded date at Chichen Itza.
Skandagupta succeeds Kumaragupta as ruler of the Gupta Empire
Hengist and Horsa battle Wurtgern at Aylesford. Horsa is killed. (According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)

March 16 - Valentinian III, west Roman emperor, (murdered by former soldiers of Aetius)
May 31 - Petronius Maximus, west Roman emperor (murdered by a Roman mob)
Kumaragupta - emperor of the Gupta Empire

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