General
Population: Between 190 and 230 million*
- Religion: Services in Roman church begin to follow Jewish tradition of alternation of singing between presentor and community
Pope Leo I persuades Attila the Hun to spare Rome
- Deaths: Easter Roman Emperor Theodosius II
Europe
- Eastern Europe: Huns control much of E Europe
- England: Saxons from Germany begin to invade Britain
- French States: Honoria the sister of Western Emperor Valentinian III asks for help from Attila the Hun and he claims her as wife and invades Gaul –
repulsed by Rome and Visigoths
Kingdom of Thuringia established
- Italian States: Famine described by Dufresnoy causes parents to eat their children in Italy
- Scotland: Kingdom of Valentia in Scotland between Hadrian's Wall and Antonine Wall ends
Middle East
- Eastern Roman Empire: Theodosius II the Eastern Roman emperor dies, Marcian new Eastern emperor
First year of Marcian and Calentinian