442

This article is about the year 442. For the number, see 442 (number). For other uses, see 442 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century – 5th century – 6th century
Decades:	410s  420s  430s  – 440s –  450s  460s  470s
Years:	439 440 441 – 442 – 443 444 445

442 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

442 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	442 CDXLII
Ab urbe condita	1195
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	5192
Bahá'í calendar	-1402–-1401
Bengali calendar	-151
Berber calendar	1392
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	986
Burmese calendar	-196
Byzantine calendar	5950–5951
Chinese calendar	辛巳年十二月初四日 (3078/3138-12-4) — to — 壬午年十一月十四日 (3079/3139-11-14)
Coptic calendar	158–159
Ethiopian calendar	434–435
Hebrew calendar	4202–4203
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	498–499
- Shaka Samvat	364–365
- Kali Yuga	3543–3544
Holocene calendar	10442
Iranian calendar	180 BP – 179 BP
Islamic calendar	186 BH – 185 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2775
Minguo calendar	1470 before ROC 民前1470年
Thai solar calendar	985

Year 442 (CDXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dioscorus and Eudoxius (or, less frequently, year 1195 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 442 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

• Emperor Valentinian III signs a peace treaty with king Genseric, and recognise the Vandal Kingdom. He grants him sovereignty over most of Africa. Genseric gives back Sicily and Mauretania (Algeria and Morocco). This marks the end of the Vandal migrations; they settle in North Africa with Carthage as their capital.
• Valentinian III does a marriage proposal for his eldest daughter Eudocia and Genseric's son Huneric. He is already married with a Visigoth princess and Genseric decides to free him of his obligations by accusing her of trying to poison him. He led her mutilated - her ears and nose are cut off - and sends her back to her father Theodoric I, in Toulouse (Gaul).

Europe

• The Huns on campaign along the Danube and the Great Morava, destroy the city of Naissus (modern Serbia). They have mastered siege technology and are able to capture fortified cities. The Roman Senate agrees to pay Attila a tribute of 700 pounds of gold per year.

Ireland

• Eógan mac Néill, founder of the kingdom of Ailech (County Tyrone), is baptized by Saint Patrick. He becomes the first Catholic High King of Ireland.

By topic

Religion

• The Monastery of St. Shenouda the Archimandrite (White Monastery) near Sohag (Egypt) is built.

Births

• Feng, Chinese empress and regent of the Northern Wei Dynasty (d. 490)
• Isidore of Miletus, Byzantine architect and mathematician (d. 537)
• Placidia, Roman empress and daughter of Valentinian III (approximate date)