Chapter 2 Page 10 👦 GLIMPSES OF WORLD HISTORY ।। A Book of Brief Historical Accounts ।। Events: Year wise ।। Compiled & Edited by Rabi Roy

 Fifth Century: 401 - 500 AD

401 AD

Visigoths begin to attack the northern Italy.

406 AD

Gunderic, King of the Germanic Vandals, attack towns and cities in Gaul.

407  AD

Roman legions withdrawn from Britain; Picts, Scots and Saxons invade. The Saxons become rulers of the British Isles.

410 AD

Goths attack Rome. Alaric lead the Asiatic Huns to attack the Roman Empire, sacking Rome in August. They introduce pants to the Roman Empire, which replace traditional togas.

414 AD

Changra Gupta II of India dies.

421 AD

Bahram V, Sassanid king, begins persecution of Christians. City of Venice is founded by Romans fleeing from Germans.

430 AD

St. Augustine of Hippo dies as the Vandals besiege his city.

432 AD

St Patrick returns to Ireland and confronts King Laoghaire who allows him to spread Christianity.

440 AD

December 25th was not celebrated as the birth date of Christ until this year. 

441 AD

Anglo-Saxons, fleeing Huns advancing on northern Europe, invade Britain.

446 AD

Vortigern leads Anglo-Saxon mercenaries and Britons against the Picts (from Scotland) and Scots (from Wales).

449 AD

Angles and Saxons conquer Britain.

450 AD

Conversion of Ireland to Christianity. (Missionary work started under Bishop Palladius 431, but most Irish people credit St Patrick with their conversion to Christianity.)

451 AD

Attila the Hun (Hephthalite) crosses the Rhine into Gaul.

455 AD

Vandals sack Rome with such ferocity that the word VANDAL will come to mean wanton destroyer.

466 AD

Buddhists in China are persecuted by adherents of Confucianism.

475 AD

Emperor Ming is succeeded by his ten-year-old son, Emperor Shun.

476 AD

The western Roman Empire ends when its last Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, is forced into retirement by German commander, Odoacer, who seized power. (The eastern Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, centered in Constantinople, will continue until 1453.)

480 AD

The Visigoths, whose capital is in Toulouse, extend their rule from the Loire River to Gibraltar.

481 AD

Clovis I becomes king of the Salian Franks.

488 AD

Zeno, emperor of the eastern half of the Roman Empire, sends Theodoric with an army of Germans across the Alps against Odoacer.

493 AD

Odoacer is defeated by Theodoric, who becomes King of Italy.

496 AD

Clovis baptized as Christian by St. Remy, bishop of Reims.

A Book of Brief Historical Accounts
 TIMELINE OF WORLD HISTORY

 Year wise Events: First Century 
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Compiled & edited by Rabi Roy