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Biography
Use mdy dates|date=February 2011Year dab|442Year nav|442M1 year in topic NOTOC Year 442 ( Roman numerals|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 Vandals|Vandal Kingdom . He grants him sovereignty over most of Africa (Roman province)|Africa . Genseric gives back Sicily and Mauretania ( Algeria and Morocco ). This marks the end of the Vandal Migration Period|migration s; they settle in North Africa with Carthage as their capital.
Valentinian III does a marriage proposal for his eldest daughter Princess Eudocia|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 Niš|Naissus (modern Serbia ). They have mastered siege technology and are able to capture fortified cities. The Roman Senate agrees to pay Attila the Hun|Attila a tribute of 700 pounds of gold per year.
Ireland
Eógan mac Néill , founder of the kingdom of Ailech ( County Tyrone ), is Baptism|baptized by Saint Patrick . He becomes the first Catholic Monarchy of Ireland|High King of Ireland .
By topic
Religion
The White Monastery|Monastery of St. Shenouda the Archimandrite (White Monastery) near Sohag ( Egypt ) is built.
Births
Empress Feng (Wencheng)|Feng , Chinese empress and regent of the Northern Wei|Northern Wei Dynasty (d. 490 )
Isidore of Miletus , Byzantine architect and mathematician (d. 537 )
Placidia , Roman empress and daughter of Valentinian III (approximate date)
