Vandals besiege Hippo
Saint Augustine dies during the siege
In 429 Gaiseric's Vandals crossed from Spain to Africa and in summer 430 besieged Hippo Regius. The city's bishop, Augustine, died in August, in the third month of the siege; a year later the Romans abandoned the city, and in 439 the Vandals took Carthage too.
Wikipedia (English) · 5th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 410 Sack of Rome by the Visigoths — 20 years earlier
- 455 Vandals sack Rome — 25 years later
Middle East
- c. 405 Mesrop Mashtots creates the Armenian alphabet — 25 years earlier
- 451 Council of Chalcedon — 21 years later
Asia
- c. 427 Founding of Nalanda — 3 years earlier
Americas
- c. 431 Ilopango eruption — 1 year later
Alive at the time
- Augustine of Hippo (aged 76)
- Attila (aged 24)