General
Population: Between 190 and 230 million*
- Religion: Pope Sixtus III dies
Leo the Great named Pope to 461
Pope Leo I - promotes supremacy of bishops of Rome
- Deaths: Pope Sixtus III
Africa
- North Africa recognized as separate kingdom
Europe
- Britain: Great flood in Brittany submerges town of Ys
Civil war and famine - country factionalized
- Italian States: Huns pillage Italy under Atilla