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- 324 - foundation of Constantinople (Byzantium) by Constantine.
- 368 - Count Theodosius routs barbarians in Britain and puts down rebellion of Valentinus.
- 382 - Magnus Maximus defeats Picts and Scots.
- 395 - division of the Empire between the sons of Theodosius.
- 398 - Britain suffers from attacks by Saxons, Picts and Scots.
- 406-7 - legions in Britain elect a series of usurpers - Marcus, Gratian, and finally Constantine III, who crosses to Gaul with Roman troops.
- 408 - Britain is devastated by Saxon incursions.
- 410 - sack of Rome by the Visigoths; Rome formally renounces Britain.
- 429 - St Germanus visits Britain to combat Pelagian heresy.
- 439 - Vandals conquer Carthage & Africa.
- 451 - defeat of the Huns at Chalons.
- 455-485 - Ambrosius Aurelianus leads a series of victories over the Saxon invaders.
- 476 - end of the Roman Empire in the west.
- 490-526 - Theoderic the Ostrogoth rules Italy.
- 486-511 - Reign of Clovis, King of the Merovingian Franks.
- 506 - Franks convert to Catholic Christianity.
- 507 - Franks defeat Visigoths and annex Aquitaine.
- 527-565 - Justinian attempts reconquest of Italy and Africa.
- 542-3 - plague ravages the Empire, eventually reaching Britain (549)
- 545 - St David establishes St David's in Wales.
- c549 - Gildas writes De excidio Britanniae.
- 563-65 - St Columba establishes monastery of Iona, and begins mission among the Picts.
- 573-594 - Gregory of Tours is bishop of Tours.
- 577 - Battle of Dyrham - British towns of Gloucester, Cirencester & Bath fall to the Saxons.
- 587 - Recared, King of the Visigoths, converts to Catholicism.
- 597 - Mission of Augustine to Britain. Establishes bishopric at Canterbury in the Kingdom of Kent.
- 600 - invasion of Italy by the Lombards.
- 628 - conversion of King Eadwine of Northumbria.
- 633 - armies of Islam begin to attack Syrian province of Eastern Empire; defeat of Eadwine by Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon ap Cadfan, King of the Britons of Gwynedd.
Continue to Early Medieval or return to Roman Empire.
See also the timelines on David Nash's Early British Kingdoms site:
- Early British Kingdoms - Chronologies & Maps
- Historical Chronology of the Early Saxon Kingdoms
See also: Germanic Invasions of Western Europe
Key sources:
An Age of Tyrants - Britain and the Britons AD 400-600 (Snyder, Penn, 1998)
The English Settlements (Myres, Oxford, 1986)
The Earliest English Kings (Kirby, Routledge, 2000)
Anglo-Saxon England (Stenton, Oxford, 1971)
A History of Medieval Europe, from Constantine to St Louis (Davis, Longman, 1970)
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