484

484 (CDLXXXIV) was a leap year beginning on a Sunday of the Julian calendar, in effect on that date.

In the Roman Empire, the year was named the year of the consulate of Venantius and Theodoric, or less commonly, as 1237 Ab urbe condita, acquiring its name as 484 at the beginning of the Middle Ages, when the anno Domini was established.

Events

• 28 December: Alarico II happens to Eurico on the Visigoth throne. It governs the Iberian peninsula except Galicia and the Basque mountains.
• The writing of the Alarico Breviary begins.
• The Heftalites defeat the Sassanid Persians in the battle of Herat.

Deaths

• 23 December: Hunerico, king of vandals and alanos.