422

This article is about the year 422. For the number, see 422 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century – 5th century – 6th century
Decades:	390s  400s  410s  – 420s –  430s  440s  450s
Years:	419 420 421 – 422 – 423 424 425

422 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

422 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	422 CDXXII
Ab urbe condita	1175
Assyrian calendar	5172
Bengali calendar	−171
Berber calendar	1372
Buddhist calendar	966
Burmese calendar	−216
Byzantine calendar	5930–5931
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3118 or 3058     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3119 or 3059
Coptic calendar	138–139
Discordian calendar	1588
Ethiopian calendar	414–415
Hebrew calendar	4182–4183
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	478–479
- Shaka Samvat	344–345
- Kali Yuga	3523–3524
Holocene calendar	10422
Iranian calendar	200 BP – 199 BP
Islamic calendar	206 BH – 205 BH
Julian calendar	422 CDXXII
Korean calendar	2755
Minguo calendar	1490 before ROC 民前1490年
Seleucid era	733/734 AG
Thai solar calendar	964–965

Emperor Wu Di (420–422)

Year 422 (CDXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Honorius and Theodosius (or, less frequently, year 1175 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 422 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

• End of the Roman–Sassanid War: Emperor Theodosius II signs a 100-year peace treaty with Persia after 2 years of war. He agrees a status quo ante bellum ("the state in which things were before the war"), and both parts guarantee liberty of religion in their territories.
• March 3 – Theodosius II issues a law to form provisions in peacetime. He instructs landowners leasing towers in the Theodosian Walls to assist with the build-up of emergency goods. Theodosius pays an annual tribute of 350 pounds of gold to the Huns in order to buy peace.
• Theodosius II receives a statue at Hebdomon, military parade ground on the shores of the Propontis, just outside Constantinople. On its base (fragments are now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum), an inscription praises him as “everywhere and forever victorious.”
• The walls of Rome's Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum) crack during an earthquake.

Europe

• The Roman army invade Gaul, they capture and execute the Frankish king Theudemeres with his family.

Asia

• Shao Di, age 16, eldest son of Wu Di succeeds his father as emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty (China).

By topic

Art

• Petrus, bishop of Illyria, starts construction of Church of Santa Sabina (approximate date).

Religion

• September 4 – Pope Boniface I dies after a 4-year reign that was interrupted for 15 weeks by the faction of the antipope Eulalius. He is succeeded by Celestine I as the 43rd pope.

Births

• Casper, ruler of the Maya city of Palenque
• Genevieve, patron saint (approximate date)
• Licinia Eudoxia, Roman empress (d. 462)

Deaths

• Abraham of Cyrrhus, Syrian hermit and bishop
• Fa-Hien, Chinese Buddhist monk and traveler (approximate date)
• September 4 – Pope Boniface I
• Theudemeres, king of the Franks (approximate date)
• Wu Di, emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty (b. 363)