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Ming Yuan Di, age 17, succeeds Dao Wu di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Wei (see Northern dynasties).

Famine strikes Hispania, Gaul and the Italian Peninsula.

Honorius agrees that sons of prominent families at court in Ravenna be sent beyond the Danube as hostages in return, later he calls up ten thousand Hun mercenaries.The End of Empire (p. 56). Christopher Kelly, 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-33849-2

The Visigothic king Alaric I lays siege to Rome a second time, bringing the inhabitants close to starvation. Emperor Honorius, safe in inaccessible Ravenna, refuses to negotiate for peace, despite repeated offers from Alaric. He comes to terms with the Senate and sets up a rival emperor, Priscus Attalus, prefect ("praefectus urbi") of the city.

The Vandals, led by king Gunderic, cross the Pyrenees into the Iberian Peninsula. They receive land from the Romans, as "foederati", in Baetica (Southern Spain). The Alans occupy lands in Lusitania and the Suebi controlled parts of Gallaecia (modern Portugal).