By place Byzantine Empire • Emperor
Anastasius I formally recognizes
Clovis I of the
Salian Franks as ruler of
Gaul. He sends a
Byzantine fleet of 100 warships to raid the coasts of
Italy.
Britannia • Battle of
Netley: King
Cerdic of Wessex moves with an
Anglo-Saxon army inland, and defeats the British king,
Nudd-Lludd (according to the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). • Winter – All the rivers in
England are frozen for more than two months.
Europe • King
Clovis I fails in an effort to take the walled city of
Carcassonne (Southern Gaul). He establishes
Paris (
Lutetia) as his capital and gets baptized, making
Roman Catholicism the official religion of the
Kingdom of the Franks. • King
Theodoric the Great sends an
Ostrogoth army, led by his sword-bearer
Theudis, drives the
Franks out of
Provence, and recovers
Septimania (
Languedoc) from the
Visigoths. == Births ==