391 395 408 Theodosius becomes sole emperor of the East and West. Theodosius defeats Eugenius, the usur per of the West, and Arbogastes, the Gaul. 414 Regency of the emperor's sister, Pulcheria. tween the sons of Theodosius. 420 Persian War. 431 Armenia divided between the Persians and Romans. 433 A great part of Constantinople destroyed by fire. 417. The Alani defeated and extirpated by the Goths. 420. FRANKS: - Pharamond, their 424. Valentinian III Franks-Clodion, king, extends his conquests to the river Somme. 433. Attila, "The scourge of God," forms an immense empire from China to the At lantic. 437 Pannonia, Dalmatia and Noricum gained from 437. Etius defeats the Goths. the western empire. 439. The kingdom of the Vandals in Africa, under Genseric, who takes Carthage and plunders Italy. 441. The Roman territories invaded by the Huns, Persians and Saxons. 445. The famous embassy from Britain, soli. citing aid against the Picts. PROGRESS OF SOCIETY, ETC. ECCLESIASTICAL. 447. Eutyches asserts the existence of only one nature in Jesus Christ. 449. Ibus, bishop of Edessa; and Eusebius, bishop of Doryleum, deposed. 450 Zozimus and Olympiodorus, Greek histo- 450. Sozomen and Theodoret, ecclesiastical rians. historians. 451. The fourth general Council at Chalcedon, at which Eutycheanism and Nestorianism are solemnly condemned 461. Pope Hilarius. 465. Pope Simplicius. 468 The principle established that every accused person shall be tried by his peers, or equals. Legislation of the Visigoths in Spain-Eric being king, and founder of the Gothic monarchy. 476 The tottering empire of the west was finally overthrown by Odoacer's sack of Rome, the great event which precedes the middle or dark ages." The form of the old Roman government remained-the senate, the consuls, &c.--but Italy, ravaged by a succession of wars, plagues, famines, and every form of public tyranny and domestic slavery, was nearly a desert. Oligarchy of the bishops of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem-all striving for the supremacy.The church now begins to assume a political aspect. Marcian, a Thracian, refuses to pay the annual Leo I., (the Thracian,) 451. The arrival of the Saxons in Britain, under Hengist and Horsa. 452. The city of VENICE founded. 455. Valentinian assassinated by 457. Petronius Maximus. Avitus. first emperor ever crowned by the patriarch. 458. Franks:-Childeric I., conquers as far War with the Goths. as the Loire and takes Paris. 475 Theodoric becomes chief of the Ostrogoths, 475.- Romulus Augustulus. and invades the empire. He ravages 176. ROME taken by ODOACER, king of Thrace. the Herulii: END of the WESTERN EMPIRE, 1228 years after the building of Rome; and commencement of the kingdom of Italy under Odoacer. |