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Events

By place

Western Roman Empire

• January 1—The last gladiatoral competition is held in Rome.
• The dome in Ravenna is built by the entire population of the city.

Asia

• Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo attacks Liaodong and takes the entire Liaodong Peninsula.
• The Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan, who founded the Pure Land Buddhism sect and the monastery on Mount Lushan, 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 laymen nonetheless make good subjects under monarchs, due to their fear of retribution of karma and desire to be reborn in paradise.

By topic

Religion

• John Chrysostom is deposed again, and Archbishop Atticus of Constantinople becomes Archbishop of Constantinople.
• Saint Telemachus is martyred.

Births

Deaths

• February—Flavian I of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch
• October 6—Aelia Eudoxia, wife of the Eastern Roman emperor Arcadius
• Claudian, court poet to Emperor Honorius and Stilicho
• Empress He Fani, empress of the Jin Dynasty, wife of Emperor Mu
• Saint Paula
• Saint Telemachus, Catholic monk
• Huan Xuan, Jin Dynasty (265–420) warlord who briefly took over the imperial throne from Emperor An of Jin