422

422 (CDXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century – 5th century – 6th century
Decades:	390s  400s  410s  – 420s –  430s  440s  450s
Years:	419 420 421 – 422 – 423 424 425

Emperor Wu Di (420–422)

Roman Empire

• End of the Roman–Sassanid War: Emperor Theodosius II signs a 100-year peace treaty with Persia after 2 years of war. Both give freedom of religion in their territories.
• March 3 – Theodosius II issues a law to form provisions in peacetime. Theodosius pays an annual tribute of 350 pounds of gold to the Huns to buy peace.
• Theodosius II receives a statue at Hebdomon. On its base (fragments are now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum), writing praises him as “everywhere and forever victorius.”
• The walls of Rome's Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum) crack during an earthquake.

Europe

• The Roman army invade Gaul. They capture and execute the Frankish king Theudemeres with his family.

Asia

• Shao Di, age 16, eldest son of Wu Di succeeds his father as emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty (China).

Art

• Petrus, bishop of Illyria, starts construction of Church of Santa Sabina (approximate date).

Religion

• September 4 – Pope Boniface I dies after a 4-year reign. His time was interrupted for 15 weeks by the faction of the antipope Eulalius. He is succeeded by Celestine I as the 43rd pope.

Births

• Casper, ruler of the Maya city of Palenque
• Genevieve, patron saint (approximate date)
• Licinia Eudoxia, Roman empress (d. 462)

Deaths

• Abraham of Cyrrhus, Syrian hermit and bishop
• Fa-Hien, Chinese Buddhist monk and traveler (approximate date)
• September 4 – Pope Boniface I
• Theudemeres, king of the Franks (approximate date)
• Wu Di, emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty (b. 363)