Murder of Hypatia
A Christian mob murders the famous woman philosopher
In March 415 a Christian mob in Alexandria dragged Hypatia — mathematician, astronomer and head of the Neoplatonist school — from her carriage and killed her in a church. Her death became a symbol of the end of ancient learning, though the schools of Alexandria carried on after her.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 395 Division of the Roman Empire — 20 years earlier
- 410 Sack of Rome by the Visigoths — 5 years earlier
Middle East
- c. 405 Mesrop Mashtots creates the Armenian alphabet — 10 years earlier
Asia
- c. 427 Founding of Nalanda — 12 years later
Americas
- c. 431 Ilopango eruption — 16 years later
Alive at the time
- Augustine of Hippo (aged 61)
- Attila (aged 9)
- Hypatia (aged 55)