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Western Roman Empire

• April 7 — The Huns
  Huns
  
  The Huns were a confederation of Central Asian Eurasian nomads or semi-nomads, who had established an empire in Eurasia. The Huns may have stimulated the Migration Period, a contributing factor in the collapse of the Roman Empire....
   sack Metz
  Metz
  
  Metz is a city in the northeast of France, capital of the Lorraine R?gion in France and prefecture of the Moselle Departments of France.It is located at the confluence of the Moselle River and the Seille rivers....
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• June 20 — Battle of Chalons
  Battle of Chalons
  
  The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains , also called the Battle of Ch?lons-en-Champagne or Battle of the Campus Mauriacus, took place in 451 between a coalition led by the Roman Empire general Flavius Aetius and the Visigoths king Theodoric I on one side and the Huns and their allies commanded by Attila the Hun on the other....
  : The Huns
  Huns
  
  The Huns were a confederation of Central Asian Eurasian nomads or semi-nomads, who had established an empire in Eurasia. The Huns may have stimulated the Migration Period, a contributing factor in the collapse of the Roman Empire....
   and the Ostrogoths, facing the Romans
  Ancient Rome
  
  Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
   and the Visigoths, achieve at best a draw. After the battle, between 10,000 and 20,000 men lie dead on the Catalaunian Fields.

Europe

• Battle of Vartanantz
  Battle of Vartanantz
  
  Battle of Avarayr was fought on May 26, 451 on the Avarayr Field in Vaspurakan, between the Armenian rebels under Saint Vartan and their Sassanid rulers....
  : The Armenia
  Armenia
  
  Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
  n army is defeated by the Persians, and their rebel leader, Saint Vartan, dies. Despite the loss, Armenians
  Armenians
  
  The Armenians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian Highlands. A large concentration of them has remained there, especially in Armenia, but many of them are also scattered elsewhere throughout the world ....
   consider this battle to have been a moral and religious victory, since the Persian king, out of respect for their efforts, allows them to remain Christian. The anniversary is a national and religious holiday.

Asia

• Sassanid ruler Yazdegerd II's decree abolishes the Sabbath
  Shabbat
  
  Shabbat or Shabbos , is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, symbolizing the seventh day in Genesis, after the six days of creation. Though it is commonly said to be the Saturday of each week, it is observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night....
  , and orders executions of Jew
  Jew
  
  A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
  ish leaders, including the Exilarch
  Exilarch
  
  Exilarch refers to the leaders of the Diaspora Jewish community following the deportation of the population of Judah into Babylonian captivity after the destruction of the kingdom of Judah....
   Mar Nuna.

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Religion

• October 8 — Council of Chalcedon
  Council of Chalcedon
  
  The Council of Chalcedon is believed to have been the fourth ecumenical council by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. It was held from 8 October to 1 November 451 at Chalcedon , today the district of Kadik?y on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, incorporated into the city of Istanbul....
  , Ecumenical council
  Ecumenical council
  
  An ecumenical council is a conference of the bishops of the whole Christian Church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice....
   of the Christian church. As a result of this council the Oriental Orthodox churches became a separate communion.
• Jerusalem
  Jerusalem
  
  Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
   becomes a Patriarchate.
• Dioscorus of Alexandria
  Dioscorus of Alexandria
  
  Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria was the 25th Pope of Alexandria /Patriarch of Alexandria by different traditions respectively.Otherwise known as His Holiness Pope St....
   is deposed as Patriarch of Antioch
  Patriarch of Antioch
  
  Patriarch of Antioch is a traditional title carried by the Bishop of Antioch. As the traditional "overseer" of the first gentile Christian community, the position has been of prime importance in the church from its Early Christianity....
  .

Births

• Jacob of Serugh
  Jacob of Serugh
  
  Jacob of Serugh was one of the foremost Syriac language poet-theologians among the Aramean-Syriac people, perhaps only second in stature to Ephrem the Syrian and equal to Narsai....
  , Syriac author
• Brigid of Ireland, Irish saint

Deaths

• Theodoric
  Theodoric
  
  Theodoric is a Germanic languages given name frequently encountered in early medieval European history. Variant spellings include forms such as Theoderic, Theudoric, Theuderic, or Theuderich....
  , king of the Visigoths (killed in battle)
• Liu Yikang
  Liu Yikang
  
  Liu Yikang , nickname Chezi , was an imperial prince of the History of China dynasty Liu Song. He was a son of Emperor Wu of Liu Song , and served as prime minister during the reign of his brother Emperor Wen of Liu Song....
  
• Tuoba Huang
  Tuoba Huang
  
  Tuoba Huang , formally Crown Prince Jingmu , later further formally honored as Emperor Jingmu with the temple name Gongzong by his son Emperor Wencheng of Northern Wei, was a crown prince of the History of China/Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei....