419

Template:Use mdy dates Template:About year Template:More citations needed Template:Year nav Template:M1 year in topic Year 419 (CDXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Monaxius and Plinta (or, less frequently, year 1172 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 419 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.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• A law is passed, prohibiting the act of instructing barbarians on shipbuilding in the Western and Eastern Roman Empires.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

China

• Jin Gongdi, age 33, succeeds his developmentally disabled brother Jin Andi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Andi is strangled by orders of the warlord Liu Yu.

Births

• July 2 – Valentinian III, emperor of the Western Roman Empire (d. 455)

Deaths

• Jin Andi, emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (b. 382)