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Western Roman Empire

• January 1 — The last gladiator
  Gladiator
  
  A Gladiator was a slave, criminal or professional fighter in ancient Rome. Gladiators fought other gladiators, wild animals and condemned criminals, sometimes to the death, for the entertainment of Spectator sport in cities and towns of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, from the 3rd century BCE to the 5th century CE....
  al competition is held in Rome.
• The dome in Ravenna
  Ravenna
  
  Ravenna is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The city is inland, but is connected to the Adriatic Sea by a canal. Ravenna once served as the seat of the Western Roman Empire and later the Ostrogoths and the Exarchate of Ravenna....
   is built by the entire population of the city.

Asia

• Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo
  Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo
  
  Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo was the nineteenth monarch of Goguryeo, the northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. His full posthumous name roughly means "Very Greatest King, Broad Expander of Territory, buried in Gukgangsang.", sometimes abbreviated to Hotaewang or Taewang....
   attacks Liaodong and takes the entire Liaodong Peninsula.
• The Chinese
  China
  
  China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
   Buddhist
  Buddhism
  
  Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religionand is based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "The Buddha" , who was born in what is today Nepal....
   monk Huiyuan, who founded the Pure Land Buddhism
  Pure Land Buddhism
  
  Pure Land Buddhism , also sometimes referred to as Amidism, is a broad branch of Mahayana Buddhism and currently one of the most popular schools of Buddhism in East Asia, along with Ch?n ....
   sect and the monastery on Mount Lushan
  Mount Lushan
  
  Mount Lu is a mountain in the People's Republic of China, situated south of the city of Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province, near Lake Poyang. Its highest point is the Dahanyang Peak ....
  , writes the book On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings in this year. In his book he argues that although the Buddhist clergy should remain independent and undisturbed by politics, the Buddhist lay people nonetheless make good subjects under monarchs, due to their fear of retribution of karma
  Karma
  
  Karma is the concept of "action" or "deed" in Indian religions understood as that which causes the entire cycle of causality originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhism philosophies....
   and desire to be reborn in paradise.

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Religion

• John Chrysostom
  John Chrysostom
  
  'Saint John Chrysostom' , archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his eloquence in Sermon and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of St....
   is deposed again, and Archbishop Atticus of Constantinople
  Archbishop Atticus of Constantinople
  
  Atticus was the archbishop of Constantinople, succeeding Arsacius of Tarsus in March 406. He had been an opponent of John Chrysostom and helped Arsacius of Tarsus depose him, but later became a supporter of him after his death....
   becomes Archbishop of Constantinople
  Patriarch of Constantinople
  
  The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is the Archbishop of Constantinople ? New Rome ? ranking as primus inter pares in the Eastern Orthodox Church organization, which is seen by followers as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church....
  .
• Saint Telemachus
  Saint Telemachus
  
  Saint Telemachus was a monk who, according to the Church historian Theodoret, intervened in a gladiator fight in a Roman amphitheatre because he saw a friend dying, and was stabbed by the gladiator....
   is martyred.