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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 ...
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In 383, the Roman general then assigned to Britain, Magnus Maximus, launched his successful bid for imperial power, [1] crossing to Gaul with his troops. He killed the Western Roman Emperor Gratian and ruled Gaul and Britain as Caesar (i.e., as a "sub-emperor" under Theodosius I). 383 is the last date for any evidence of a Roman presence in the north and west of Britain, [2] perhaps excepting ...
410 Last Roman leaves Britain and tells the natives to defend themselves from other invaders overseas, as Rome is under attack from the Goths; 449 Hengest, Saxon leader, arrives in England; c. 466 Battle of Wippedesfleot; 597 Arrival of St. Augustine; 793 Vikings raid Lindisfarne; 802 Vikings ransack monastery on Iona
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.
AD 23: 14 September: Drusus Julius Caesar died, possibly after being poisoned by Sejanus or his wife Livilla. AD 26: Tiberius retired to Capri, leaving Sejanus in control of Rome through his office. AD 28: The Frisii hanged their Roman tax collectors and expelled the governor. AD 29: Livia, Augustus's widow and Tiberius's mother, died. AD 31: ...
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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. Galla Placidia, daughter of Theodosius I, is captured by the Visigoths and becomes a hostage during their move from the Italian Peninsula to Gaul.