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They were to go to Rome and garrison the city, but their commander, a man named Valens, marched his men into Etruria, believing it cowardly to go around the Goths. He and his men were intercepted and attacked by Alaric's full force, and almost all were killed or captured. Only 100 managed to escape and reach Rome. [69] [71]
The Goths of Alaric sack Rome 455 The Vandals of Gaiseric sack Rome 476 Fall of the west empire and deposition of the final emperor Romulus Augustus: 6th century Gothic War (535–554): The Goths cut off the aqueducts in the siege of 537, an act which historians traditionally regard as the beginning of the Middle Ages in Italy [33] 608
The fall of the Western Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a process in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided among several successor polities.
536 - Rome is recovered for the Roman Empire by Belisarius. 546 - Rome is sacked by Totila, King of the Ostrogoths. c. 590 - 604 - Pope Gregory the Great makes the Christian church exceedingly strong. 609 - The Pantheon becomes a Christian church. 630 - The Church of Sant' Agnese is the first Roman church to be constructed in Byzantine style.
Alaric, king of Visigoths, sacked Rome itself in 410; something that had not happened for eight centuries. Northern Italy was attacked by Attila's Huns in 452. Rome was sacked in 455 again by the Vandals under the command of Genseric. The Praetorian prefecture of Italy (in yellow) stretched from the Danube river to North Africa
The main aqueducts in Rome were the Aqua Claudia and the Aqua Marcia. [283] The complex system built to supply Constantinople had its most distant supply drawn from over 120 km away along a route of more than 336 km. [284] Roman aqueducts were built to remarkably fine tolerance, and to a technological standard not equalled until modern times. [285]
The Samnites were just as warlike and rich as the Romans [32] and set out to expand into new lands in fertile Italian plains near Rome. [33] The First Samnite War, between 343 and 341 BC, followed widespread Samnite incursions into the territory of Rome, [34] which were followed by the battle of Mount Gaurus (342 BC) and the battle of Suessula (341
Maximus was killed by a mob as he attempted to flee Rome in the face of a Vandal advance. 2 June: Sack of Rome (455): The Vandals entered and began to sack Rome. 9 July: The Magister militum Avitus was pronounced augustus of the Western Roman Empire at Toulouse by the Visigothic king Theodoric II. 456: 17 October