437

This article is about the year 437. For the DOS code page, see code page 437.

Year 437 (CDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aetius and Sigisvultus (or, less frequently, year 1190 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 437 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.

437 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	437 CDXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1190
Assyrian calendar	5187
Balinese saka calendar	358–359
Bengali calendar	−157 – −156
Berber calendar	1387
Buddhist calendar	981
Burmese calendar	−201
Byzantine calendar	5945–5946
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3134 or 2927     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3135 or 2928
Coptic calendar	153–154
Discordian calendar	1603
Ethiopian calendar	429–430
Hebrew calendar	4197–4198
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	493–494
- Shaka Samvat	358–359
- Kali Yuga	3537–3538
Holocene calendar	10437
Iranian calendar	185 BP – 184 BP
Islamic calendar	191 BH – 190 BH
Javanese calendar	321–322
Julian calendar	437 CDXXXVII
Korean calendar	2770
Minguo calendar	1475 before ROC 民前1475年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1031
Seleucid era	748/749 AG
Thai solar calendar	979–980
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 563 or 182 or −590     — to — མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 564 or 183 or −589

Solidus of Valentinian III celebrating his marriage to Licinia Eudoxia

Events

By place

Europe

• Flavius Aetius, Roman general (magister militum), secures the besieged city of Narbonne (Southern Gaul) against King Theodoric I. He concludes a peace treaty with the Visigoths, and becomes consul for the second time.
• July 2 – Valentinian III, age 18, rules as emperor over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence until her death in 450.
• October 29 – Valentinian III cements an alliance with the eastern emperor, Theodosius II, by marrying his daughter Licinia Eudoxia in Constantinople. This marks the reunion of the two branches of the House of Theodosius.^[1]
• Battle of Wallop: Ambrosius Aurelianus, leader of the Romano-British, defeats the Anglo Saxons under King Vortigern. He is given all the kingdoms of the western side of Britain (according to Historia Brittonum).

Mesoamerica

• K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' dies after an 11-year reign. He is the founder and first ruler of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization centered at Copán (modern Honduras).

By topic

Religion

• A synod at Constantinople attempts to impinge on the Pope's rights in Illyria. Proclus tries to implement the synod's decisions, and Pope Sixtus III reminds the Illyrian bishops of their obligations to his vicar at Thessaloniki.

Births

• Childeric I, king of the Salian Franks (approximate date)
• Remigius, bishop of Reims (approximate date)

Deaths

• Li Jingshou, princess of the Xiongnu state Northern Liang