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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.
It is the first time since 390 BC that Rome has fallen to an enemy. This marks the decline of the Roman Empire. Only 45 years later, in 455 AD, Rome will again be sacked, this time by the Vandals who will kill, burn, and loot much more ferociously than the Visigoths in 410 AD.
410: 24 August: Sack of Rome (410): Rome was sacked by the Visigoths under their king Alaric I. End of Roman rule in Britain: The last Roman forces left Britain. 421: 8 February: Honorius appointed his brother-in-law and Magister militum Constantius III co-ruler of the Western Roman Empire with himself. 2 September: Constantius III died. 423: ...
Imaginative portrait of Alaric in C. Strahlheim, Das Welttheater, 4.Band, Frankfurt a.M., 1836. According to Jordanes, a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat of Gothic origin—who later turned his hand to history—Alaric was born on Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube Delta in present-day Romania and belonged to the noble Balti dynasty of the Thervingian Goths.
408 AD 410 AD Visigothic Second Invasion of Italy Part of the Conquests of Alaric I: Visigoths: Western Roman Empire: 410 AD 410 AD Sack of Rome (410) Part of the Conquests of Alaric I: Visigoths: Western Roman Empire: 421 AD 422 AD Roman–Sasanian War (421–422) Sassanid Empire. Lakhmids. Eastern Roman Empire: 426 AD 426 AD Conquest of ...
The Western Roman Empire in 418 AD, ... [61] the negotiations between Alaric and Honorius broke down in 410 and Alaric sacked the city of Rome.
80 AD - While Titus is inspecting the damage of the eruption of Vesuvius, a fire breaks out in the city for three days, destroying Capitoline temples and the Pantheon. [2] 125 AD - Emperor Hadrian has the Pantheon reconstructed, assuming its current appearance. 212 AD - All the inhabitants of the empire are granted citizenship of Rome. 216 AD ...
In 410, the Visigoths under Alaric I had sacked Rome and in 455, the last western emperor of Theodosius' dynasty, Valentinian III (r. 425–455), was deposed and murdered. That same year, Rome was sacked again for the second time in less than fifty years, this time by the Vandals.