# 446

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This article is about the year 446.  For the locomotive, see [4-4-6](/source/4-4-6).

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Calendar year

Years Millennium 1st millennium Centuries 4th century 5th century 6th century Decades 420s 430s 440s 450s 460s Years 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 v t e

446 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Categories Deaths v t e

446 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 446 CDXLVI Ab urbe condita 1199 Assyrian calendar 5196 Balinese saka calendar 367–368 Bengali calendar −148 – −147 Berber calendar 1396 Buddhist calendar 990 Burmese calendar −192 Byzantine calendar 5954–5955 Chinese calendar 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3143 or 2936 — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3144 or 2937 Coptic calendar 162–163 Discordian calendar 1612 Ethiopian calendar 438–439 Hebrew calendar 4206–4207 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 502–503 - Shaka Samvat 367–368 - Kali Yuga 3546–3547 Holocene calendar 10446 Iranian calendar 176 BP – 175 BP Islamic calendar 181 BH – 180 BH Javanese calendar 330–331 Julian calendar 446 CDXLVI Korean calendar 2779 Minguo calendar 1466 before ROC 民前1466年 Nanakshahi calendar −1022 Seleucid era 757/758 AG Thai solar calendar 988–989 Tibetan calendar ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Bird) 572 or 191 or −581 — to — མེ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dog) 573 or 192 or −580

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[Saint Flavian of Constantinople](/source/Archbishop_Flavian_of_Constantinople)

Year **446** (**[CDXLVI](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [common year starting on Tuesday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Tuesday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/Julian_calendar). At the time, it was known as the **Year of the Consulship of [Aetius](/source/Aetius_(magister_militum)) and [Symmachus](/source/Quintus_Aurelius_Symmachus_(consul_446))** (or, less frequently, **year 1199 *[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***). The denomination 446 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

### By place

#### Europe

- Bishop [Germanus of Auxerre](/source/Germanus_of_Auxerre) visits [Ravenna](/source/Ravenna), seeking to soften imperial hostility towards the [Bagaudae](/source/Bagaudae). On his arrival at the capital, empress-mother [Galla Placidia](/source/Galla_Placidia) sends him a silver [dish](/source/Dish_(food)) with a choice selection of prepared dainties—all [vegetarian](/source/Vegetarianism), out of respect for the bishop's strict [diet](/source/Diet_(nutrition)). Germanus petitions the [Senate](/source/Roman_Senate) for leniency for the citizens of [Armorica](/source/Armorica) ([Brittany](/source/Brittany)).[1]

- The [Britons](/source/Britons_(historical)) and [Anglo-Saxon](/source/Anglo-Saxons) mercenaries, under King [Vortigern](/source/Vortigern), appeal to [Flavius Aetius](/source/Flavius_Aetius) (*[magister militum](/source/Magister_militum)* of [Gaul](/source/Gaul)) for military assistance in their struggle against the [Picts](/source/Picts) and [Irish](/source/Irish_people). Aetius has enough problems with [Attila the Hun](/source/Attila) and is unable to send any help (according to *[Groans of the Britons](/source/Groans_of_the_Britons)*).

- The [Cor Tewdws](/source/Cor_Tewdws) (College of Theodosius), [Llantwit Major](/source/Llantwit_Major) ([Wales](/source/Wales)), is supposedly burned down by [Irish](/source/Ireland) pirates.

#### China

- [Three Disasters of Wu](/source/Three_Disasters_of_Wu): The [Northern Wei dynasty](/source/Northern_Wei) begins persecuting [Buddhists](/source/Buddhism), having heretofore encouraged them. The drain of manpower and [tax](/source/Tax) money to [temples](/source/List_of_Buddhist_temples) and [monasteries](/source/Monastery) has threatened the secular government, and the reaction is fierce: [monks](/source/Bhikkhu) and [nuns](/source/Bhikkhuni) are murdered, temples and [icons](/source/Iconography) destroyed. All men under age 50 are prohibited from joining any [monastic order](/source/Monasticism) in a program that will continue until [450](/source/450), helping the [Confucianist](/source/Confucianism) philosophy of the [Han dynasty](/source/Han_dynasty) to gain dominance over [Buddhism](/source/Chinese_Buddhism).

### By topic

#### Religion

- A local [synod](/source/Synod) is held by [Turibius of Astorga](/source/Turibius_of_Astorga).

- [Flavian](/source/Flavian_of_Constantinople) becomes [patriarch of Constantinople](/source/List_of_Ecumenical_Patriarchs_of_Constantinople).

## Deaths

- [February 19](/source/February_19) – [Leontius of Trier](/source/Leontius_of_Trier), Bishop of [Trier](/source/Trier)

- [Mac Cairthinn mac Coelboth](/source/Mac_Cairthinn_mac_Coelboth), [king of Leinster](/source/List_of_kings_of_Leinster) ([Ireland](/source/Ireland))

- [Proclus](/source/Proclus_of_Constantinople), [patriarch of Constantinople](/source/List_of_Ecumenical_Patriarchs_of_Constantinople) (approximate date)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** The End of Empire (p. 227). Christopher Kelly, 2009. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-393-33849-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-393-33849-2)

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