Significant Dates:

376: Goths cross into Roman territory, fleeing from Huns.

378: Goths revolt; Roman army defeated at Adrianople.

406: Vandals, Sueves and others cross Rhine into Gaul.

410: Rome sacked by Goths.

413-427: Augustine writes City of God.

418: Goths settled in Aquitania.

429-439: Vandals conquer North Africa.

c.440: Salvian of Marseilles writes On the Governance of God.

c.445: Priscus at court of Attila.

451: Attila the Hun defeated at battle of Catalaunian Fields.

c.454-482: Saint Severinus in Noricum (modern Austria).

455: Rome sacked by Vandals.

476: Last western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, deposed in Ravenna.

c.550: Jordanes, in Constantinople, writes his History of the Goths.

Emperors:

Valens 364-378 (killed at Adrianople)

Theodosius I (379-395)

Honorius (395-423) emperor in west

Generals and warlords:

Stilicho, magister militum (master of soldiers) in the west: 395-408

Alaric, leader of the Goths c.392-411

Attila ("little daddy"), king of the Huns c.445-453

Odoacer, deposes last western emperor and rules Italy 476-493

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