General
Population: Between 190 and 230 million*
- Religion: Pope's excommunication of Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople leads to first schism between western and eastern Churches
- Deaths: Euric king of Visigoths, Hunneric King of Vandals
Africa
- General: Drought brings great famine
- North: Death of Hunneric King of Vandals, nephew Gunthamund rules
Asia
- India: Gupta empire overthrown by Epthalite invaders from beyond the Oxus River
Europe
- Eastern Europe: End of revolt of Vahan Mamikonian in Armenia
- Spanish States: Death of Euric king of Visigoths
Middle East
- Persia: Rise of Hepthalites in Persia