Who ruled

And beyond the steppe

  • China Northern Wei Emperor Taiwu 423–452
  • Iran Sasanian Yazdegerd II 438–457
  • Korea Goguryeo Jangsu 413–491
  • Byzantium Theodosian Theodosius II 408–450

Tarim and Sogdiana

  • Culture · Towns founded and walls built in Sogdiana under the Kidarites: Panjikent, Paikent, Bukhara; the citadel of Samarkand raised (440–470)

    Sogdiana · Samarkand · Paikent · Bukhara

Byzantium

  • Peace of Anatolius: the eastern Romans hand back the fugitives, pay 6,000 pounds of gold in arrears and raise the tribute to 2,100 pounds a year

    Peace of Anatolius · Attila's Balkan wars · Attila · Theodosius II

    Also dated 447 (a second reckoning): Priscus dates the peace only after the battle in the Chersonese.