This article is about the year 415. For 415 BC, see 415 BC.
415 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 415
CDXV
Ab urbe condita 1168
Assyrian calendar 5165
Balinese saka calendar 336–337
Bengali calendar −179 – −178
Berber calendar 1365
Buddhist calendar 959
Burmese calendar −223
Byzantine calendar 5923–5924
Chinese calendar 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
3112 or 2905
    — to —
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
3113 or 2906
Coptic calendar 131–132
Discordian calendar 1581
Ethiopian calendar 407–408
Hebrew calendar 4175–4176
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 471–472
 - Shaka Samvat 336–337
 - Kali Yuga 3515–3516
Holocene calendar 10415
Iranian calendar 207 BP – 206 BP
Islamic calendar 213 BH – 212 BH
Javanese calendar 299–300
Julian calendar 415
CDXV
Korean calendar 2748
Minguo calendar 1497 before ROC
民前1497年
Nanakshahi calendar −1053
Seleucid era 726/727 AG
Thai solar calendar 957–958
Tibetan calendar ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་
(male Wood-Tiger)
541 or 160 or −612
    — to —
ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Wood-Hare)
542 or 161 or −611
King Wallia of the Visigoths

Year 415 (CDXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Honorius and Theodosius (or, less frequently, year 1168 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 415 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

Roman Empire

  • Constantius, Roman general (magister militum), drives the Visigoths out of Gaul. He captures the usurper Priscus Attalus, and sends him under military escort to Ravenna.[1]
  • The Visigoths invade the Iberian Peninsula and begin to conquer territory taken previously by the Vandals. King Athaulf and his pregnant wife Galla Placidia leave Gallia Narbonensis; they relocate at Barcelona. Their infant son, Theodosius, dies in infancy, eliminating an opportunity for a Roman-Visigothic line. Athaulf is assassinated in the palace while taking a bath. Sigeric succeeds him, but after a reign of seven days he is also murdered.[2]
  • Autumn – Wallia, brother of Athaulf, becomes king of the Visigoths. He accepts a peace treaty with emperor Honorius, in return for a supply of 600,000 measures of grain. After the negotiations he sends Placidia to Rome with hostages.[3]

Asia

  • March 18 – The Daysan River floods Edessa, Mesopotamia.[citation needed]

By topic

Religion

  • March – Hypatia of Alexandria, Neoplatonist philosopher, is murdered by a Christian mob of Nitrian monks at the church (former temple conceived by Cleopatra VII) called Caesareum. Having driven out the Jews, Alexandria's new patriarch, Cyril, has instigated the mob after taking offense at Hypatia's scientific rationalism (approximate date).[citation needed]
  • John Cassian, Christian theologian, settles at a monastery in Marseille (Gaul); he organizes monastic communities after an eastern model.[4]
  • The Eustathian schism in Antioch is healed (approximate date).[citation needed]

Deaths

  • March – Hypatia of Alexandria, female Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician, murdered in Egypt
  • August 15 – Athaulf, king of the Visigoths, assassinated
  • August 22 – Sigeric, king of the Visigoths, assassinated
  • Chandragupta II, emperor of the Gupta Empire (India) (probable date)
  • Thermantia, Roman empress consort[5]
  • Tufa Rutan, deposed Chinese prince of the Southern Liang, poisoned (b. 365)

References

  1. ^ Stewart Irvin Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta: A Biographical Essay (Chicago: University Press, 1968), p. 132
  2. ^ Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta, pp. 133-135
  3. ^ Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta, pp. 136-139
  4. ^ Dunn, Geoffrey (2015). "Cassian in Syria?: The Evidence of Innocent I". Vigiliae Christianae. 69 (1): 3–17. doi:10.1163/15700720-12341224. hdl:2263/44105. ISSN 0042-6032.
  5. ^ Chronicon Paschale, s.a. 415. Translated by Michael and Mary Whitby, Chronicon Paschale, 284-628 AD (Liverpool: University Press, 1989), p. 63 ISBN 9780853230960