The world in 476 AD — what happened that year

6 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.

What happened

China (5)

• Liu Jingsu, Prince of Jianping, rebelled based at Jingcheng (Jingkou), and Xiao Daocheng, as Commander-in-Chief, led the suppression. (History of the Southern Dynasties (Nanshi), Annals 南史 卷3 元徽4年)
• Liu Jingsu, General Who Pacifies the North and Governor of Nanxuzhou, Prince of Jianping, occupied the capital and rebelled. (Book of Song (Songshu), Annals 宋書 卷9 元徽4年 7月)
• The capital fell, and Liu Jingsu was beheaded. (Book of Song (Songshu), Annals 宋書 卷9 元徽4年 7月)
• Empress Dowager Feng poisons Emperor Xianwen (Xianzu) to death (June). (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 卷134)
• Liu Jingsu, Prince of Jianping, rebels at Jingkou, is defeated by court forces, captured, and executed. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 卷134)

Korean Peninsula (1)

• In the winter of the twentieth year, the king of Goguryeo attacks Baekje with a great army and almost destroys it; the few survivors gather beneath Kuraha (Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) 日本書紀 卷第十四 雄略紀 20年 단락68)

Changes of power ◆

Places where the world territory data shows a change of borders in this year.

• ◆ Kingdom of Soissons appears
• ◆ Maitraka dynasty appears
• ◆ Western Satraps appears
• ◆ Western Roman Empire ends
• ◆ Tuyuhun takes 160,500 km² of former Protectorate of the Western Regions land
• ◆ Protectorate of the Western Regions loses 160,500 km² to Tuyuhun

Same events recorded in this year

• Battle of Jingkou (476) — the same event in History of the Southern Dynasties, Book of…

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