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Events

• December 28 - Alaric II succeeds Euric as king of the Visigoths.
• Gunthamund becomes king of the Vandals.
• Pope Felix III excommunicates Peter Mongus , patriarch of Alexandria, and Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople, causing a schism between eastern and western Christianity that lasted 35 years (the Acacian schism ).
• The Hephthalites invade Persia, and Peroz I is killed in battle; Balash becomes king of Persia.
• Gundobad proclaims the Burgundian Code

Births

• Brendan, Irish saint (possible date)

Deaths

• December 23 - Huneric, king of Vandals
• Euric, king of the Visigoths
• Aelia Verina, wife of emperor Leo I
• Peroz I, King of Persia