468

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468 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 468
CDLXVIII
Ab urbe condita 1221
Assyrian calendar 5218
Balinese saka calendar 389–390
Bengali calendar −126 – −125
Berber calendar 1418
Buddhist calendar 1012
Burmese calendar −170
Byzantine calendar 5976–5977
Chinese calendar 丁未年 (Fire  Goat)
3165 or 2958
     to 
戊申年 (Earth  Monkey)
3166 or 2959
Coptic calendar 184–185
Discordian calendar 1634
Ethiopian calendar 460–461
Hebrew calendar 4228–4229
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 524–525
 - Shaka Samvat 389–390
 - Kali Yuga 3568–3569
Holocene calendar 10468
Iranian calendar 154 BP – 153 BP
Islamic calendar 159 BH – 158 BH
Javanese calendar 353–354
Julian calendar 468
CDLXVIII
Korean calendar 2801
Minguo calendar 1444 before ROC
民前1444年
Nanakshahi calendar −1000
Seleucid era 779/780 AG
Thai solar calendar 1010–1011
Tibetan calendar མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Fire-Sheep)
594 or 213 or −559
     to 
ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Earth-Monkey)
595 or 214 or −558
Pope Simplicius (468-483) Sansimpliciopapa.jpg
Pope Simplicius (468–483)

Year 468 ( CDLXVIII ) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Anthemius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1221 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 468 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.

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Roman Empire

  • Emperor Leo I assembles a massive naval expedition at Constantinople, which costs 64,000 pounds of gold (more than a year's revenue) and consists of over 1,100 ships carrying 100,000 men. It is the greatest fleet ever sent against the Vandals and brings Leo near to bankruptcy.
  • Emperor Anthemius sends a Roman expedition under command of Marcellinus. He expels the Vandals from Sicily and retakes Sardinia. The Eastern general Heraclius of Edessa lands with a force on the Libyan coast, east of Carthage, and advances from Tripolitania.
  • Battle of Cape Bon: The Vandals defeat the Roman navy under Basiliscus, anchored at Promontorium Mercurii , 45 miles from Carthage (Tunisia). During peace negotiations Genseric uses fire ships, filling them with brushwood and pots of oil, destroying 700 imperial galleys. Basiliscus escapes with his surviving fleet to Sicily, harassed all the way by Moorish pirates.
  • August Marcellinus is murdered in Sicily, probably at the instigation of his political rival, Ricimer. Heraclius is left to fight alone against the Vandals; after a 2-year campaign in the desert he returns to Constantinople.
  • Basiliscus returns to Constantinople after a disastrous expedition against the Vandals. He is forced to seek sanctuary in the church of Hagia Sophia to escape the wrath of the people. Leo I gives him imperial pardon, but banishes him for 3 years to Heraclea Sintica (Thrace).
  • Dengizich, son of Attila the Hun, sends an embassy to Constantinople to demand money. Leo I offers the Huns settlement in Thrace in exchange for recognition of his authority. Dengizich refuses and crosses the Danube.
  • Roman forces under Anagast defeat the Huns at the river Utus (Vit, Bulgaria). Dengizich is killed and his head is paraded through the streets of Constantinople. Stuck on the end of a wooden pole, it is displayed above the Xylokerkos Gate. [1]
  • The Vandals reconquer Sicily, administering a decisive defeat to the Western forces.

Jiaozhou (Vietnam)

  • In March, Jiaozhou governor Lưu Mục died of illness. Lý Trường Nhân, a nobleman launched a coup d'état against the Jiaozhou government, killed the Liu Song officials in Jiaozhou, seized control of the citadel then declared himself as the governor. [2]
  • In August, Emperor Ming of Song granted Lưu Bột the title of Jiaozhou governor, along with an army to retake Jiaozhou from Lý Trường Nhân. After landing in Jiaozhou, Lưu Bột was quickly defeated by Lý Trường Nhân, and died shortly afterward. [2]
  • In November, Lý Trường Nhân sent an envoy to make peace with the Liu Song and requested the title of "Hành Châu sự", a position with less authority than that of the Governor of Jiaozhou. Emperor Ming approved with Trường Nhân's request, granting him the authority to govern Jiaozhou until 479. [2]

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References

  1. The End of Empire (p. 269). Christopher Kelly, 2009. ISBN   978-0-393-33849-2
  2. 1 2 3 Ngô Sĩ Liên (1993), Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, page 34, Peripheral Records vol. 4.