Years: 480 481 482 483 - 484 - 485 486 487 488

Decades: 450s 460s 470s - 480s - 490s 500s 510s

Centuries: 4th century - 5th century - 6th century

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