Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 451 A.D. through 500 A.D.
- 451 to 500
- Attila d. 453
- Theodoric II, king of the Visigoths (453 - 466)
- The Vandals sack Rome (455)
- Skandagupta, Emperor of India (455 - 467)
- Battle of Crayford: Britons defeated by Hengest,
abandon Kent to Jutes (457)
- Leo I, Eastern Roman Emperor (457 - 474)
- Childeric I, king of the Salian Franks (457 - 481)
- Cologne captured by the Franks (460)
- Vandals destroy Roman fleet off Cartagena (460)
- Last Western Roman emperors (from 461): Severus
(- 465), Althemius (- 467), Alybrius (- 473),
Glycerius (- 474), Julius Nepos (- 475), and
Romulus Augustulus (- 476)
- Theodoric II murdered (466) by his brother Uric,
who succeeds him (- 484)
- The Huns withdraw from Europe (470)
- Flowering of Maya city civilization in southern
Mexico (c. 470)
- Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths
(471 - 526)
- Zeno, Eastern Roman emperor (474 - 491)
- End of Western Roman Empire (476): the German
Odoacer (433 - 493) captures and executes Orestes
at Placentia, deposes Orestes' son, the derisively
titled Emperor Romulus Augustulus, and is proclaimed
king of Italy
- Gaiseric, king of the Vandals (428 -477), sells
eastern Sicily to Theodoric, king of the Visigoths
(476)
- Founding of the kingdom of Sussex (477)
- Hunneric, king of the Vandals (477 - 484), son and
successor of Gaiseric, fierce persecutor of the
Catholics
- Basiliscus, Eastern Roman emperor, deposes Zeno and
is in turn deposed (477)
- Ch'i dynasty in southern China (479 - 502)
- Ex-Emperor Julius Nepos killed in Dalmatia (480)
- Childeric I, king of the Salian Franks, d. 481;
succeeded by his 15-year-old son Clovis, who becomes
the founder of the Merovingian power (d. 511)
- Justinian I, the Great, Byzantine Emperor (527 - 565),
b. 483
- Hunneric, king of the Vandals, d. 484; succeeded by
his nephew Gunthamund (- 496)
- The revolt of Vahan Mamikonian (481 - 484) secures
religious and political freedom for Armenia
- Gupta empire in northen India overthrown by Epthalite
invaders from beyond the Oxus River (c. 484)
- Alaric II, king of the Visigoths (484 - 507)
- Clovis defeats Syagrius, the last Roman governor of
Gaul, near Soissons (486)
- Theodoric begins his conquest of Italy (487 - 493)
- Theodoric defeats Odoacer on the Isonzo River and
again near Verona (489)
- The Saxons capture Pevensey, Sussex (491)
- Emperor Zeno d. 491; succeeded by Anastasius I
(- 518)
- Odoacer capitulates at Ravenna to the Ostrogoths
(493) and is murdered by Theodoric; Theodoric
founds the Ostrogoth kingdom of Italy, and marries
a sister of Clovis
- Clovis I, king of the Franks, marries Burgundian
princess Clothilda (493), who converts him to
Christianity (496)
- The Ostrogoths in Malta (494 - 534)
- The kingdom of Wessex founded (495)
- Gunthamund, king of the Vandals, d. 496; succeeded
by his brother Thrasamund (- 523)
- Clovis defeats the Alemanni near Strasbourg (496)
and is baptized by his friend St. Remigius (or
Remy), Bishop of Rheims
- Thrasamund marries Theodoric's sister and obtains
as dowry western Sicily (500)
- The Marcomanni, a German tribe in Bohemia, invade
Bavaria (500); on their departure the Czechs
settle in Bohemia
- The Lombards (Langobards) occupy the area north of
the Danube (500) and expand, "seeking occasions
for war"
- Brit. victory over the Saxons at Mount Badon,
Dorset (500)
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