454

This article is about the year 454. For other uses, see 454 (disambiguation).

Year 454 (CDLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aetius and Studius (or, less frequently, year 1207 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 454 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	430s 440s 450s 460s 470s
Years:	451 452 453 454 455 456 457

454 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	454 CDLIV
Ab urbe condita	1207
Assyrian calendar	5204
Balinese saka calendar	375–376
Bengali calendar	−139
Berber calendar	1404
Buddhist calendar	998
Burmese calendar	−184
Byzantine calendar	5962–5963
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3151 or 2944     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3152 or 2945
Coptic calendar	170–171
Discordian calendar	1620
Ethiopian calendar	446–447
Hebrew calendar	4214–4215
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	510–511
- Shaka Samvat	375–376
- Kali Yuga	3554–3555
Holocene calendar	10454
Iranian calendar	168 BP – 167 BP
Islamic calendar	173 BH – 172 BH
Javanese calendar	339–340
Julian calendar	454 CDLIV
Korean calendar	2787
Minguo calendar	1458 before ROC 民前1458年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1014
Seleucid era	765/766 AG
Thai solar calendar	996–997
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 580 or 199 or −573     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 581 or 200 or −572

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• September 21 – Emperor Valentinian III stabs his commander-in-chief Flavius Aetius to death, during a meeting of the imperial council at Ravenna. He has accused Aetius of plotting against him to seize power. After his assassination, the Western Roman Empire has no effective defender against its hostile barbarian neighbors (Alans, Franks, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Visigoths).

Europe

• Battle of Nedao: Allied forces of subjected peoples (Gepids, Heruli, Ostrogoths, Rugii, Sciri and Suebi), under the leadership of King Ardaric, defeat the Huns under Ellac, eldest son of Attila the Hun, in Pannonia. Ellac is killed during the battle and succeeded by his brother Dengizich.
• Ardaric unites the Gepids with other Germanic tribes, and founds the Kingdom of the Gepids in the Pannonian Basin.
• The Vandals conquer Malta.
• Ireland: The Diocese of Clogher is erected.

Births

• Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths (d. 526)
• Xian Wen Di, Chinese emperor of Northern Wei (d. 476)

Deaths

• September 21 – Flavius Aetius, Roman general (magister militum)
• Ellac, king of the Huns
• Justa Grata Honoria, sister of Valentinian III (approximate date)
• Dioscorus the Great, patriarch of Alexandria