Death of Empress Eudoxia

Date: October 6, 404 • Location: Istanbul, Turkey

Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy.

Year 404 (CDIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Honorius and Aristaenetus. The denomination 404 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.