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The earlier of the two Talmuds, consisting of commentaries on the Mishnah, is collected by rabbis in Palestine
The Yamato clan adapt Shinto to their own purposes, and claim imperial descent from the sun
St Augustine reveals that as a young man, studying and teaching in Carthage, he often prayed for 'chastity and continence, but not yet'
St Jerome, in Bethlehem, completes the Latin translation of the Bible which later becomes known as the Vulgate
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
Prompted by the fall of Rome to the Visigoths, St Augustine undertakes a great work of Christian philosophy, the City of God
The Visigoths, after twenty years of destructive wandering, settle in southwest France as Roman federates
A council is convened at Ephesus to consider the theology of Nestorius, which is judged to be heretical
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
The squinch, soon followed by the more sophisticated pendentive, proves a great boon to builders of domes
St Patrick creates a strong tradition of Celtic Christianity in Ireland, from his base in Armagh
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 Lokavibhaga, an Indian Jain text, contains the earliest known reference to the numeral zero being used in place-value notation
The mausoleum of Galla Placidia begins Ravenna's great tradition of Christian mosaic
The Syrian desert is full of hermits living on pillars, following the example of St Simeon Stylites
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
The 15-year-old Clovis inherits the Merovingian crown and becomes leader of the Franks - with his first capital at Tournai
