A.D. 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, ecclestastical rians. historians. A.D. EASTERN EMPIRE. WESTERN EMPIRE. 448. Franks:-Merovaus 1st, king of the Merovingians. Etius defeats the Huns. 450 457 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. -Majorian. first emperor ever crowned by the patriarch. 458. Franks:-Childeric I., conquers as far War with the Goths. as the Loire and takes Paris. racies. and invades the empire. Thrace. 475 Theodoric becomes chief of the Ostrogoths, 475.- Romulus Augustulus. He ravages 176. ROME taken by ODOACER, king of the Herulii: END of the WESTERN EMPIRE, 1228 years after the building of Rome; and commencement of the kingdom of Italy under Odoacer. 538 Architecture: the church of St Sophia built 538. Pope Vigilius. at Constantinople. Proclus, a learned Platonist. 502 The empire ravaged and the imperial army destroyed by Carbades, king of Persia. 507 Long walls built to protect Constantinople from the Bulgarians. 481. FRANCE:-Clovis I founder 494. Alaric II., king of the Visigoths in Spain. 485. France:-Battle of Soissons gained by Clovis. 487. Britain:-The Saxons defeated by Prince Arthur and Ambrosius. 490:-Italy-ravaged by the barbarians. Britain:-kingdom of Sussex. 491. France:-Clovis subdues Thuringia. 493. Italy-conquered by Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths.-Odoacer put to death. 499. France:--Clovis concludes a peace with -Burgundy becomes his tributary. 507. --Clovis defeats Alaric near Poictiers. 510. France:-Clovis makes Paris his capital. 511 A great insurrection in Constantinople, 10,000 511. France:-Clovis dies. killed. 532-quells a conspiracy in Constantinople. 534-defeats the Vandals in Africa. 535-subdues Sicily. 536-takes Naples. Childebert 1. 512. The HERULII settle in Thrace. 516. The Christian Era adopted. 519. Britain:-Prince Arthur defeated at Charford by Cerdic, who begins the third Saxon kingdom of Wessex. 522. Spain-Amalaric, the first Gothic king, who establishes his court in Spain-his capi. tal, Seville. 530. Britain:-kingdom of Essex. 531. Spain:-Theudis succeeds Amalaric. 532. Burgundy conquered by Childebert. 536. Vitiges, king of the Ostogroths, surren ders his possessions in Gaul to the French king. 537-takes Rome, defeats the Ostrogroths in 537. Italy conquered by Belisarius. Italy. 638-the Huns in Thrace, and |