446

This article is about the year 446. For the locomotive, see 4-4-6.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	420s 430s 440s 450s 460s
Years:	443 444 445 446 447 448 449

446 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	446 CDXLVI
Ab urbe condita	1199
Assyrian calendar	5196
Balinese saka calendar	367–368
Bengali calendar	−147
Berber calendar	1396
Buddhist calendar	990
Burmese calendar	−192
Byzantine calendar	5954–5955
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3143 or 2936     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3144 or 2937
Coptic calendar	162–163
Discordian calendar	1612
Ethiopian calendar	438–439
Hebrew calendar	4206–4207
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	502–503
- Shaka Samvat	367–368
- Kali Yuga	3546–3547
Holocene calendar	10446
Iranian calendar	176 BP – 175 BP
Islamic calendar	181 BH – 180 BH
Javanese calendar	330–331
Julian calendar	446 CDXLVI
Korean calendar	2779
Minguo calendar	1466 before ROC 民前1466年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1022
Seleucid era	757/758 AG
Thai solar calendar	988–989
Tibetan calendar	阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 572 or 191 or −581     — to — 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 573 or 192 or −580

Saint Flavian of Constantinople

Year 446 (CDXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aetius and Symmachus (or, less frequently, year 1199 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 446 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

Europe

• Bishop Germanus of Auxerre visits Ravenna, seeking to soften imperial hostility towards the Bagaudae. On his arrival at the capital, empress-mother Galla Placidia sends him a silver dish with a choice selection of prepared dainties—all vegetarian, out of respect for the bishop's strict diet. Germanus petitions the Senate for leniency for the citizens of Armorica (Brittany).
• The Britons and Anglo-Saxon mercenaries, under King Vortigern, appeal to Flavius Aetius (magister militum of Gaul) for military assistance in their struggle against the Picts and Irish. Aetius has enough problems with Attila the Hun and is unable to send any help (according to Groans of the Britons).
• The Cor Tewdws (College of Theodosius), Llantwit Major (Wales), is supposedly burned down by Irish pirates.

China

• Three Disasters of Wu: The Northern Wei dynasty begins persecuting Buddhists, having heretofore encouraged them. The drain of manpower and tax money to temples and monasteries has threatened the secular government, and the reaction is fierce: monks and nuns are murdered, temples and icons destroyed. All men under age 50 are prohibited from joining any monastic order in a program that will continue until 450, helping the Confucianist philosophy of the Han dynasty to gain dominance over Buddhism.

By topic

Religion

• A local synod is held by Turibius of Astorga.
• Flavian becomes patriarch of Constantinople.

Deaths

• February 19 – Leontius of Trier, Bishop of Trier
• Mac Cairthinn mac Coelboth, king of Leinster (Ireland)
• Proclus, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)