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Events

By Place

Western Roman Empire

• Geiseric, king of the Vandals, captures Sicily.

Asia

• Northern China is unified by the Northern Wei.
• The Hepthalites, who will later be known as the Avars move south from the region of Altay Mountains into Transoxiana, Bactria, Khurasan and eastern Persia.

By Topic

Religion

• September 29 - Leo succeeds Sixtus as Pope.

Births

• Bodhidharma, semi-legendary Buddhist monk

Deaths

• February 17 - Saint Mesrob, Armenian monk
• August 18 - Pope Sixtus III
• Paulinus, the master of the offices in Constantinople, executed.

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