409

This article is about the year 409. For the song by the Beach Boys, see 409 (song).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	380s 390s 400s 410s 420s
Years:	406 407 408 409 410 411 412

409 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	409 CDIX
Ab urbe condita	1162
Assyrian calendar	5159
Balinese saka calendar	330–331
Bengali calendar	−184
Berber calendar	1359
Buddhist calendar	953
Burmese calendar	−229
Byzantine calendar	5917–5918
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3106 or 2899     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3107 or 2900
Coptic calendar	125–126
Discordian calendar	1575
Ethiopian calendar	401–402
Hebrew calendar	4169–4170
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	465–466
- Shaka Samvat	330–331
- Kali Yuga	3509–3510
Holocene calendar	10409
Iranian calendar	213 BP – 212 BP
Islamic calendar	220 BH – 219 BH
Javanese calendar	292–293
Julian calendar	409 CDIX
Korean calendar	2742
Minguo calendar	1503 before ROC 民前1503年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1059
Seleucid era	720/721 AG
Thai solar calendar	951–952
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 535 or 154 or −618     — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 536 or 155 or −617

Coin of Priscus Attalus

Year 409 (CDIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Honorius and Theodosius (or, less frequently, year 1162 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 409 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Spring – Gerontius, Roman general (magister militum), who had been a partisan of Constantine III revolts in Hispania. He elevates Maximus, his domesticus, as emperor.
• October 13 – The Vandals, led by king Gunderic, cross the Pyrenees into the Iberian Peninsula. They receive land from the Romans, as foederati, in Baetica (Southern Spain). The Alans occupy lands in Lusitania and the Suebi controlled parts of Gallaecia (modern Portugal).
• The Visigothic king Alaric I lays siege to Rome a second time, bringing the inhabitants close to starvation. Emperor Honorius, safe in inaccessible Ravenna, refuses to negotiate for peace, despite repeated offers from Alaric. He comes to terms with the Senate and sets up a rival emperor, Priscus Attalus, prefect (praefectus urbi) of the city.
• Honorius agrees that sons of prominent families at court in Ravenna be sent beyond the Danube as hostages; in return, later he calls up ten thousand Hun mercenaries.
• Famine strikes Hispania, Gaul and the Italian Peninsula.

Asia

• Ming Yuan Di, age 17, succeeds Dao Wu di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Wei (see Northern dynasties).

Births

• Daniel the Stylite, Christian saint (approximate date)
• Liu Yikang, prince of the Liu Song Dynasty (d. 451)

Deaths

• Gao Yun, emperor of Northern Yan
• Li, empress and wife of Gao Yun
• Mallius Theodorus, Roman consul (approximate date)
• Serena, noblewoman and wife of Stilicho
• Dao Wu Di, emperor of Northern Wei (b. 371)