Majorian enters the Rhone Valley and defeats…

Leo recognizes Majorian as emperor of the West in 458.

The city of Tbilisi on the Kura River is founded by king Vakhtang I of Iberia.

Its location gives it control of the trade routes between western and eastern Transcaucasia.

According to an old legend, the present-day territory of Tbilisi was covered by forests as late as 458.

One widely accepted variant of the legend of Tbilisi's founding states that King Vakhtang went hunting in the heavily wooded region with a falcon (sometimes the falcon is replaced with either a hawk or other small birds of prey in the legend).

The King's falcon allegedly caught or injured a pheasant during the hunt, after which both birds fell into a nearby hot spring and died from burns.

King Vakhtang became so impressed with the hot springs that he decided to cut down the forest and build a city on the location.

The name Tbilisi derives from the Old Georgian word "Tpili", meaning warm.

The name 'Tbili' or 'Tbilisi' ('warm location') was therefore given to the city because of the area's numerous sulfuric hot springs that came out of the ground.

Additionally, archaeological studies of the region have revealed that the territory of Tbilisi had at least some human presence as early as the fourth millennium BCE.

The energetic Majorian, hoping to recover Africa from the Vandals, begins building a Roman fleet at Miseno and …

…Ravenna.

He strengthens the army, by recruiting a large number of barbarian mercenaries (Burgundians, Huns, Ostrogoths, Rugii, Scythians and Suebi).

The Vandals land in Campania, at the mouth of the Lire or the Garigliano River, and devastate the region.

Majorian personally leads the Roman army and defeats the invaders near Sinuessa, destroying their ships on the seashore, loaded with booty.

Majorian, a young, capable general in his late thirties, decides the first step towards consolidating the empire is to confront the Visigoths in Septimania.

Traveling with his generals Aegidius and Nepotianus, Majorian encounters the Visigothic king and his army at Arelate, at the mouth of the Rhodanus river (Rhone).

The ensuing battle is an overwhelming Gothic defeat.

Theodoric II is forced to flee Arelate, abandon Septimania, and conclude a hasty peace treaty.

The treaty returns all Visigothic territory in Hispania to the Romans, and the Visigoths are reduced to federate status.

The battle allows Majorian to campaign deeper in Gaul against the Burgundian Kingdom, and later in Hispania against the Suebic Kingdom.

Emperor Xiaowu proves to be licentious and cruel, supposedly committing incest with the daughters of an uncle who had helped him gain the throne; his rivals also claim he had incest with his mother.

This leads to two rebellions by the imperial clan, one of which sees him slaughter the inhabitants of Guangling.

Emperor Leo signs a peace treaty with the Ostrogoths; King Theodemir, in compliance with the terms, sends his five-year-old son Theodoric as a child hostage to Constantinople.

Simeon, a Syrian Christian ascetic dismissed from a Syrian monastery for excessive austerity, became a hermit on Mount Telanissae.

He eventually moves to a platform at the top of a pillar, or stylos.

His advice sought by thousands of pilgrims, he remains at the top of the pillar until his death in about 459.

Simeon, who will be widely imitated, is the first of early Christianity’s so-called pillar ascetics.

The civil war in Persia had affected the nation so much as to have cost a province: Vatche, the king of Aghouank (Albania), a territory of Armenia, had rebelled against Persian rule and declared himself independent while the brothers were busy fighting among each other.

After Peroz I secures the throne in the year 457, he leads an army into Albania and completely subjugates the nation.

He then dismisses his Hephthalite allies with costly presents and proceeds to rule the empire in moderation and justice.