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==== Roman Empire ====
* [[January 27]] &ndash; Emperor [[Marcian]] dies at [[Constantinople]], possibly of [[Gangrene|foot gangrene]], an infection contracted during a long [[Religion|religious]] journey. He is buried in the [[Church of the Holy Apostles]], together with his late wife [[Pulcheria]].<ref name="Croke">{{cite journal|last1=Croke|first1=Brian|date=1978|title=The date and circumstances of Marcian's decease|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44170550|journal=Byzantion|volume=48|pages=5–9|jstor=44170550|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Nathan |first1=Geoffrey S. |title=Roman Emperors – DIR Marcian |url=https://www.roman-emperors.org/marcian.htm|website=www.roman-emperors.org |access-date=4 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706012537/http://www.roman-emperors.org/Marcian.htm|archive-date=6 July 2018|date=1998}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Leo I (emperor)|Leo I]], a [[Thraco-Roman]] (or [[Dacia]]n) high-ranking officer, becomes the new emperor of the [[Eastern Roman Empire]], reigning for nearly 20 years. He is first to accept the [[Crown jewels|Byzantine crown]] from the hands of the [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|patriarch of Constantinople]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Bury|first= John Bagnell|author-link = John Bagnell Bury|title= History of the Later Roman Empire: from the death of Theodosius I to the death of Justinian|volume = 1|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HqA9NA7MQ6kC|publisher = Dover Publications|year = 1958|series = Dover books|isbn = 978-0-486-20398-0
}}</ref><ref>[[Edward Gibbon]], ''[[The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]], Volume I,'' Chap. XXXVI (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1952), p. 582.  Bibl.  Theophanes, p. 95 [ed. Par.; tom. i p. 170, ed. Bonn].</ref>
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Majorian]] is acclaimed emperor by the [[Late Roman army|Roman army]], after defeating 900 [[Alemanni]] near [[Lake Maggiore]] (Italy).<ref>Sidonius Apollinaris, ''Carmina'', V.373–385.</ref><ref name="fasti583">''[[Fasti vindobonenses priores]]'', 583.</ref>
* [[December 28]] &ndash; Majorian is crowned emperor of the [[Western Roman Empire]] and recognized by [[Pope Leo I]]. His rule is accepted in Italy, [[Dalmatia]] and some territories in Northern [[Gaul]].<ref>Timothy Barnes, "Review: Late Roman Prosopography: Between Theodosius and Justinian", ''Phoenix'', vol. 37, no. 3 (1983), pp. 268–269</ref>