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Events relating to migration
The Celts move across the Channel into Britain, soon becoming the dominant ethnic group in the island
Seafarers reach and colonize the Pacific island of Samoa
The Yuezhi, defeated by the Xiongnu, move west - before eventually descending into Bactria and northwest India
The Roman general Gaius Marius defeats the Teutones, a German tribe which has made deep inroads into southern Gaul
A German tribe, the Cimbri, press into northern Italy until they are defeated at Vercellae and driven out of the peninsula
The Xiongnu split into two hordes, one of them submitting to China and the other moving west
Tribes speaking Finno-Ugric languages are by now settled around the northeast of the Baltic, in modern Estonia and Finland
The Goths split into two major groups, the Visigoths northwest of the Black Sea and the Ostrogoths further east
The Picts win a dominant position among tribes in the northern regions of Britain, or Scotland
The Huns, moving from the steppes north of the Black Sea, defeat the Ostrogoths and drive the Visigoths westwards - starting a chain reaction
The Visigoths inflict a devastating defeat on a Roman army at Adrianople, and win for themselves the status of Roman federates
The Vandals cross the Rhine into Gaul and move into Spain, from which the Visigoths soon push them on into Africa
The Roman city of Nîmes is sacked by the Vandals, in an early indication of the gradual loss of Gaul to the Germanic tribes
Alaric and the Visigoths enter Rome and plunder the city - the first foreign intruders for eight centuries
The Burgundians cross the Rhine and settle round Worms, before moving south to the Savoy region
The Visigoths, after twenty years of destructive wandering, settle in southwest France as Roman federates
Halted by a Roman army in their push southwards, the Franks settle in the Roman province of Belgica, around Tournai
Gaiseric captures Carthage and makes it his base for Vandal raids across the Mediterranean
Attila murders his brother and becomes the sole ruler of the Huns, who are now pressing through Dacia and across the Danube
Angles, Saxons and other Germanic groups invade southern England and steadily push the Celts westwards
Attila and the Huns invade Gaul but are defeated, somewhere near Troyes, by a Roman army supported by Visigoths and Burgundians
Attila invades and ravages northern Italy, but turns back before reaching Rome - possibly influenced by the diplomacy of Leo I
The Czechs are the most powerful of the various Slav tribes by now settled in Bohemia
