Death of Attila the Hun

In 453 CE, Attila, ruler of the Hunnic Empire stretching from the Baltic to the Caspian Sea, died on the night of his marriage to Ildico. His guards found him the following morning, having suffered a severe nosebleed and choked on his own blood during sleep. Attila had ruled the Huns since 434, first jointly with his brother Bleda, then solely after murdering him around 445. His campaigns reached from Gaul to the gates of Constantinople. The Hunnic Empire fragmented within two decades of his death.