477

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Year 477 (CDLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year after the Consulship of Basiliscus and Armatus (or, less frequently, year 1230 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 477 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.

Events

By place

Europe

• January 25 – King Genseric dies a natural death at Carthage, and is succeeded by his eldest son Huneric. He maintains control with his Vandal fleet over the islands in the western Mediterranean Sea, and rescinds his father's policy of persecuting the Roman Catholics in Africa.
• According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Aelle, first king of the South Saxons, lands on the Sussex coast (England), with his three sons, near Cymenshore. The Britons engage him upon landing, but his superior force besieges them at Pevensey and drives them into the Weald. Over the next nine years, Saxon coastal holdings are gradually expanded.

Byzantine Empire

• Armatus, Byzantine military commander (magister militum), is killed by order of emperor Zeno. He is murdered by his own friend Onoulphus after supporting the rebellion of his uncle Basiliscus (see 475).

China

• Shun Di, age 10, becomes emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty, after his brother Houfei Di is assassinated by general Xiao Daocheng. He installs him as puppet ruler and sets himself up as regent. Xiao receives near-imperial powers and establishes Buddhism as the state religion.
• Shaolin Monastery is founded (according to the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks (645) by Dàoxuān; the monastery is built on the north side of Shaoshi Mountain, the western peak of Mount Song, one of the four Sacred Mountains of China, by emperor Xiao Wen Di of the Northern Wei Dynasty in 477. Yang Xuanzhi, in the Record of the Buddhist Monasteries of Luoyang (547), and Li Xian, in the Ming Yitongzhi (1461), concur with Daoxuan's location and attribution. For alternate founding date, see 495 or 497).
• Xiao Wen Di sets up the "Three Leaders" system, under which native hamlet, village and district officers are responsible for taxation and conscription.
• This year is the earliest date for the oldest known painted depiction of a horse collar, on a cave mural of Dunhuang, during the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Births

Deaths

• Armatus, Byzantine general (magister militum)
• Basina, queen of Thuringia (Germany)
• January 25 – Genseric, king of the Vandals and Alans
• Houfei Di, emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty (b. 463)
• Liu Bing, high official of the Liu Song Dynasty (b. 433)
• Munju, king of Baekje (Korea)
• Timothy II, Coptic Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria
• Yuan Can, high official of the Liu Song Dynasty (b. 420)

References

In Hearthstone, there is a card name Flamewreathed Faceless that is a 7/7 minion for 4 mana. Many have turned the series of digits: "477" into a common reference to this card.