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| c. 405 |
| | | St Jerome, in Bethlehem, completes the Latin translation of the Bible which later becomes known as the Vulgate | |
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| 406 |
| | | The Vandals cross the Rhine into Gaul and move into Spain, from which the Visigoths soon push them on into Africa | |
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| 407 |
| | | The Roman city of Nîmes is sacked by the Vandals, in an early indication of the gradual loss of Gaul to the Germanic tribes | |
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| 410 |
| | | Alaric and the Visigoths enter Rome and plunder the city - the first foreign intruders for eight centuries | |
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| 413 |
| | | The Burgundians cross the Rhine and settle round Worms, before moving south to the Savoy region | |
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| c. 413 |
| | | Prompted by the fall of Rome to the Visigoths, St Augustine undertakes a great work of Christian philosophy, the City of God | |
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| 418 |
| | | The Visigoths, after twenty years of destructive wandering, settle in southwest France as Roman federates | |
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| 431 |
| | | A council is convened at Ephesus to consider the theology of Nestorius, which is judged to be heretical | |
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| 431 |
| | | Halted by a Roman army in their push southwards, the Franks settle in the Roman province of Belgica, around Tournai | |
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| 439 |
| | | Gaiseric captures Carthage and makes it his base for Vandal raids across the Mediterranean | |
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| 445 |
| | | Attila murders his brother and becomes the sole ruler of the Huns, who are now pressing through Dacia and across the Danube | |
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| c. 450 |
| | | Angles, Saxons and other Germanic groups invade southern England and steadily push the Celts westwards | |
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| c. 450 |
| | | The squinch, soon followed by the more sophisticated pendentive, proves a great boon to builders of domes | |
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| c. 450 |
| | | St Patrick creates a strong tradition of Celtic Christianity in Ireland, from his base in Armagh | |
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| 451 |
| | | Attila and the Huns invade Gaul but are defeated, somewhere near Troyes, by a Roman army supported by Visigoths and Burgundians | |
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| 452 |
| | | Attila invades and ravages northern Italy, but turns back before reaching Rome - possibly influenced by the diplomacy of Leo I | |
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| 455 |
| | | Gaiseric and the Vandals enter Rome and sack the city, but their violence is perhaps restrained by Leo I | |
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| c. 460 |
| | | The mausoleum of Galla Placidia begins Ravenna's great tradition of Christian mosaic | |
|  | Ravenna, mosaic in Neon Baptistery
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| c. 475 |
| | | The Syrian desert is full of hermits living on pillars, following the example of St Simeon Stylites | |
|  | Pillar of Simeon the Stylite
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| 476 |
| | | The tribal leader and mercenary Odoacer becomes king of Italy - an event often taken as defining the end of the Roman empire in the west | |
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| c. 481 |
| | | The 15-year-old Clovis inherits the Merovingian crown and becomes leader of the Franks - with his first capital at Tournai | |
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| 487 |
| | | Theodoric the Ostrogoth, threatening Constantinople, is cunningly diverted by the emperor into invading Italy | |
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| 493 |
| | | Theodoric wins Ravenna from Odoacer - by inviting Odoacer to a banquet and murdering him during the meal | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | The Czechs are the most powerful of the various Slav tribes by now settled in Bohemia | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Monks in Ireland live in stone beehive cells on rocky islands, to achieve maximum discomfort | |
|  | Beehive stone house, 6th century
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| c. 500 |
| | | Small ivory panels, with Gospel scenes carved in relief, provide a delicate beginning to the story of Christian sculpture | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | A phallic figure, the Cerne Giant, is cut on a Dorset hillside at Cerne Abbas | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | The temple city of Tikal is one of many Mayan city states of the Classic period | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | The scribes known as Masoretes safeguard the ancient Hebrew of the Torah by their careful copying of the text | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | The city of Tiwanaku develops to the south of Lake Titicaca, and soon dominates the surrounding region | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Beans are gathered by the Maya from wild cocoa trees and are probably used in a chocolate drink | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | According to Bede, the first widely accepted Anglo-Saxon ruler in southern Britain is Aelli, founder of the West Sussex kingdom | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Mayan priests feature in stone carvings smoking pipes and puffing the smoke towards the sacred sun | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Clovis and some 3000 of his soldiers are baptized in a massive ceremony at Reims | |
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| 518 |
| | | The Slavs cross the Danube and press southwards into the Roman provinces of Moesia and Thracia | |
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| 525 |
| | | Dionysius Exiguus, commissioned by the pope to improve chronology, makes an error of at least four years in his selected event for AD 1 | |
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