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The sack of Rome on 24 August 410 AD was undertaken by the Visigoths led by their king, Alaric. At that time, Rome was no longer the administrative capital of the Western Roman Empire, having been replaced in that position first by Mediolanum (now Milan) in 286 and then by Ravenna in 402. Nevertheless, the city of Rome retained a paramount ...
800 - Charlemagne is crowned Roman emperor in St. Peter's Basilica. 801 - An earthquake damages St. Paul's Outside the Walls on 29 April. 846 - During the Arab raid against Rome the moors plundered the environs of the city, including Old St. Peter's Basilica, but they were prevented from entering the city itself by the Aurelian Wall
410. Pope Gelasius I, Pope in Catholic church (d. 496) Severinus of Noricum, monk and saint (approximate date) 411. Merovech, Founder of the Merovingian dynasty and grandfather of Clovis I (approximate date) 412. February 8 – Proclus, Greek Neoplatonist philosopher (d. 485) Lu Huinan, empress dowager of the Liu Song dynasty (d. 466) 415
Plaque commemorating the popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica (their names in Latin and the year of their burial). This chronological list of popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes.
Year 410 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year after the Consulship of Honorius and Theodosius (or, less frequently, year 1163 Ab urbe condita ).
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Pope Lucius III issues the papal bull Ad Abolendam. This bull set up the organization of the medieval inquisitions. 1185: Windmills are first recorded. 1185: Uprising of Asen and Peter. The reestablishment of the Bulgarian Empire. 1185: At the Battle of Dan no Ura, Minamoto Yoshitsune, cousin of Yoshinaka, annihilates the Taira clan.
July 11 – Anthemius, besieged in the part of Rome he controls until his troops are defeated, is caught while fleeing the city disguised as a supplicant in the Old St. Peter's Basilica (or at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere), and later beheaded by Gundobad or Ricimer.