{"id":1161,"date":"2016-12-06T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T05:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:17:33","slug":"5th-century-history-400-499","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/5th-century-history-400-499\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Century History (400 – 499)"},"content":{"rendered":"

401<\/b> Visigoths begin to attack the northern Italy.
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\n406<\/b> Gunderic, King of the Germanic Vandals, attack towns and cities in Gaul.
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\n407<\/b> Roman legions withdrawn from Britain; Picts, Scots and Saxons invade. The Saxons become rulers of the British Isles.
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\n410<\/b> 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.
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\n414<\/b> Changra Gupta II dies.
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\n421<\/b> Bahram V, Sassanid king, begins persecution of Christians. City of Venice is founded by Romans fleeing from Germans.
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\n430<\/b> St. Augustine of Hippo dies as the Vandals besiege his city.
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\n432<\/b> St Patrick returns to Ireland and confronts King Laoghaire who allows him to spread Christianity.
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\n440<\/b> December 25th was not celebrated as the birth date of Christ until this year.
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\n441<\/b> Anglo-Saxons, fleeing Huns advancing on northern Europe, invade Britain.
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\n446<\/b> Vortigern leads Anglo-Saxon mercenaries and Britons against the Picts (from Scotland) and Scots (from Wales).
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\n449<\/b> Angles and Saxons conquer Britain.
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\n450<\/b> Conversion of Ireland to Christianity. (Missionary work started under Bishop Palladius 431, but most Irish people credit St Patrick with their conversion to Christianity.)
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\n451<\/b> Attila the Hun (Hephthalite) crosses the Rhine into Gaul.
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\n455<\/b> Vandals sack Rome with such ferocity that the word vandal will come to mean wanton destroyer.
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\n466<\/b> Buddhists in China are persecuted by adherents of Confucianism
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\n475<\/b> Emperor Ming is succeeded by his ten-year-old son, Emperor Shun.
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\n476<\/b> The western Roman Empire ends when its last Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, is forced into retirement by German commander, Odoacer, who seizer power. (The eastern Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, centered in Constantinople, will continue until 1453.)
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\n480<\/b> The Visigoths, whose capital is in Toulouse, extend their rule from the Loire River to Gibraltar.
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\n481<\/b> Clovis I becomes king of the Salian Franks.
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\n488<\/b> Zeno, emperor of the eastern half of the Roman Empire, sends Theodoric with an army of Germans across the Alps against Odoacer.
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\n493<\/b> Odoacer is defeated by Theodoric, who becomes King of Italy.
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\n496<\/b> Clovis baptized as Christian by St. Remy, bishop of Reims.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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