453

Year 453 (CDLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Opilio and Vincomalus (or, less frequently, year 1206 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 453 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	430s 440s 450s 460s 470s
Years:	450 451 452 453 454 455 456

453 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	453 CDLIII
Ab urbe condita	1206
Assyrian calendar	5203
Balinese saka calendar	374–375
Bengali calendar	−140
Berber calendar	1403
Buddhist calendar	997
Burmese calendar	−185
Byzantine calendar	5961–5962
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3150 or 2943     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3151 or 2944
Coptic calendar	169–170
Discordian calendar	1619
Ethiopian calendar	445–446
Hebrew calendar	4213–4214
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	509–510
- Shaka Samvat	374–375
- Kali Yuga	3553–3554
Holocene calendar	10453
Iranian calendar	169 BP – 168 BP
Islamic calendar	174 BH – 173 BH
Javanese calendar	338–339
Julian calendar	453 CDLIII
Korean calendar	2786
Minguo calendar	1459 before ROC 民前1459年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1015
Seleucid era	764/765 AG
Thai solar calendar	995–996
Tibetan calendar	阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 579 or 198 or −574     — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 580 or 199 or −573

The Hunnic Empire (453)

Events

By place

Byzantium

• July – Empress Pulcheria dies of natural causes at Constantinople. She has commissioned many new churches in the city during her reign. Her death leaves Flavius Aspar (magister militum) as the dominant influence on her husband, Marcian.
• Anthemius marries Marcia Euphemia, daughter of Marcian, and is elevated to the rank of comes. He is sent to the Danubian frontier to rebuild the border defences.

Europe

• c. March – Attila the Hun is found dead in bed, after a wedding feast with the Goth princess Ildica. He dies of a nosebleed at his Hungarian stronghold, drowning in his own blood aged about 47. The Huns celebrate a strava (lamentation) over his burial place with great feasting. Attila's son Ellac is appointed successor, but his brothers Dengizich and Ernakh divide the Hunnic Empire by establishing their own kingdoms north of the Black Sea (Ukraine), supported by vassal states.
• Theodoric II succeeds his brother Thorismund as king of the Visigoths, Thorismund having been murdered after he violated the alliance with the Western Roman Empire.

Asia

• March 16 – Emperor Wen of Song is assassinated by his sons Liu Shao and Liu Jun, Prince Shixing, so that Liu Shao could become emperor.
• May 20 – Liu Shao is overthrown by another brother, Liu Jun who becomes Emperor Xiaowu of Song, and executed together with other members of his family on May 27.
• Ankō obtains the throne of his father Ingyō after the traditional order of succession and becomes the 20th emperor of Japan. His eldest brother Prince Kinashi no Karu commits suicide after being accused of an incestuous relationship with his sister Karu no Ōiratsume (according to the Nihon Shoki).

Births

• Brigit of Kildare, Irish patron saint (d. 524)
• Vedast, Frankish bishop (approximate date)

Deaths

• c. March – Attila, ruler of the Huns (b. 406)
• March 16 – Emperor Wen of Song, assassinated (b. 407)
• May 27 – executed:
  • Liu Jun, Prince Shixing of the Liu Song dynasty (b. 429)
  • Liu Shao, emperor of Liu Song (b. 426)
  • Pan, concubine of Wen Di
  • Empress Yin of Liu Song, forced suicide
• July – Pulcheria, Byzantine Empress
• Helian, empress of Northern Wei
• Thorismund, king of the Visigoths, assassinated
• Approximate traditional date:
  • Emperor Ingyō of Japan
  • Prince Kinashi no Karu of Japan