Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 401 A.D. through 450 A.D.
- 401 to 450
- The Visigoths invade Italy in 401 (- 403)
- Gunderic, king of the Vandals (406 - 428)
- Founding of Burgundian kingdom of Worms (406)
- Stilicho checks Ostrogothic invasion at Fiesole (406)
- Alaric captures and sacks Rome in 410; dies on his
way to the south; buried in the bed of the Busento
River near Cosenza
- Roman legions withdraw from Britain to protect Italy
(410)
- The Visigoths conquer Vandal kingdom in Spain (416)
- Franks settle in parts of Gaul (418)
- Theodoric I, king of the Visigoths (418 - 451)
- Barbarians settled in Roman provinces (425): Vandals
in southern Spain, Huns in Pannonia, Ostrogoths in
Dalmatia, Visigoths and Suevi in Portugal and nothern
Spain
- Valentinian III (b. 419), Western Roman Emperor under
the guardianship of his mother Galla Placidia (425)
- Gaiseric, king of the Vandals (428 - 477)
- Picts and Scots expelled from southern England by
Saxons, Jutes, and Angles (429)
- Aetius, chief minister of Valentinian III, becomes the
virtual ruler of Western Roman Empire (429 - 454)
- Gaiseric founds Vandal kingdom in northern Africa (429)
- Atilla in 433 becomes ruler of the Huns (d. 453)
- The last Roman troops leave Britain (436)
- The Huns destroy Burgundian kingdom of Worms (436)
- The Alemanni settle in Alsace (443)
- Gaiseric takes last Roman possessions in northern
Africa, and establishes absolute monarchy (443)
- Theodosius II d. 450; succeeded as Eastern Roman
Emperor by Marcian (- 457)
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