434

Year 434 (CDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aspar and Areobindus (or, less frequently, year 1187 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 434 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:	410s 420s 430s 440s 450s
Years:	431 432 433 434 435 436 437

434 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	434 CDXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1187
Assyrian calendar	5184
Balinese saka calendar	355–356
Bengali calendar	−159
Berber calendar	1384
Buddhist calendar	978
Burmese calendar	−204
Byzantine calendar	5942–5943
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3130 or 3070     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3131 or 3071
Coptic calendar	150–151
Discordian calendar	1600
Ethiopian calendar	426–427
Hebrew calendar	4194–4195
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	490–491
- Shaka Samvat	355–356
- Kali Yuga	3534–3535
Holocene calendar	10434
Iranian calendar	188 BP – 187 BP
Islamic calendar	194 BH – 193 BH
Javanese calendar	318–319
Julian calendar	434 CDXXXIV
Korean calendar	2767
Minguo calendar	1478 before ROC 民前1478年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1034
Seleucid era	745/746 AG
Thai solar calendar	976–977
Tibetan calendar	阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 560 or 179 or −593     — to — 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 561 or 180 or −592

The Missorium of Aspar and his elder son Ardabur (434)

Events

Roman Empire

• Flavius Aetius, Roman general (magister militum) in the service of Emperor Valentinian III, begins to hold power in Rome (this will continue for 20 years). He allows the Huns to settle in Pannonia, along the Sava River.
• Justa Grata Honoria, older sister of Valentinian, becomes pregnant from an officer in her household. Circles in the court at Ravenna assume inevitably that Honoria is planning to raise her paramour to imperial rank and challenge her brother. Valentinian then has him executed.[1]
• Summer – The Huns under Rugila devastate Thrace and move steadily towards Constantinople. The citizens prepare themselves for a long siege, depending on the strength of the Theodosian Walls.[2]
• Emperor Theodosius II bribes the Huns (after the death of Rugila) to keep the peace in the Eastern Roman Empire.

Africa

• The Vandals in North Africa defeat the Roman general Aspar and force him to withdraw. He serves as consul at Constantinople.

Europe

• Attila, king of the Huns, consolidates his power in the Hungarian capital, probably on the site of Buda (modern Budapest). He jointly rules the kingdom with his brother Bleda.

Religion

• April 12 – Maximianus dies on Great and Holy Thursday. He is succeeded by Proclus, who becomes archbishop of Constantinople.

Deaths

• April 12 – Maximianus, archbishop of Constantinople[3]
• Helian Chang, emperor of the Chinese Xiongnu state Xia
• Rugila, king of the Huns (approximate date)
• Tao Sheng, Chinese Buddhist scholar

References

1. Theodosian Empresses: Woman and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity, by Kenneth G. Holum
2. The End of Empire (p. 90). Christopher Kelly, 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-33849-2
3. Chadwick, Henry (2001). The Church in Ancient Society: From Galilee to Gregory the Great. Oxford University Press. p. 547. ISBN 9780199246953.