448

Year 448 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Praetextatus and Zeno. The denomination 448 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

Emperor Theodosius II sends an embassy to Attila the Hun; Anatolius, an Eastern Roman general responsible for the security of the Eastern frontier, achieves a peace treaty with the Huns, in exchange for an annual tribute of of gold per year.
Attila demands in the treaty the evacuation of the territory running from Singidunum east along the Danube to Novae. This depopulated buffer zone deprives the Romans of their natural defensive advantages.
Theodosius II orders all non-Christian books burned.

Flavius Aetius suppresses the Bagaudae in Armorica, and defeats the Salian Franks under King Chlodio near Arras ; the invaders are stopped around a river-crossing near Vicus Helena.
Rechiar succeeds his father Rechila as king of the Suebi in Galicia. He marries a daughter of the Visigoth king Theodoric I and converts to Catholicism.

Kou Qianzhi, Chinese Daoist reformer, dies after having converted emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei and having established Daoism as the country's dominant religion. His death presages a revival of Buddhism as China's dominant faith.