419
Year 419 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Monaxius and Plinta. The denomination 419 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
- A law is passed, prohibiting the act of instructing barbarians on shipbuilding in the Western and Eastern Roman Empires.
China
- Jin Gongdi, age 33, succeeds his developmentally disabled brother Jin Andi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Andi is strangled by orders of the warlord Liu Yu.
Births
- July 2 - Valentinian III, emperor of the Western Roman Empire
Deaths
- Jin Andi, emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty