430 - 449 A.D. - Beginning of the End for the Roman Empire...?

por Deborah Marino ago 22, 2022

(Feature Photo: Ruins of the Fortress of Anavarza, it was the principle settlement of Cilicia Secunda during the reign of Theodisuis II; Credit: Sarah Murray, Wikimedia Commons)

430

RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire – Valentinian III is emperor of the Western Roman Empire – Celestine I is the 43rd pope/bishop of Rome

431

RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire – Valentinian III is emperor of the Western Roman Empire – Celestine I is the 43rd pope/bishop of Rome

432

RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Celestine I, the 43rd pope/bishop of Rome and Sixtus III succeeds him

July 31, Sixtus III succeeds pope Celestine I and becomes the 44th pope/bishop of Rome (Celestine I dies the next day)

August 1, Celestine I (former pope) dies

433

RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Sixtus III is the 44th pope/bishop of Rome

434

RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Sixtus III is the 44th pope/bishop of Rome

435

RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Sixtus III is the 44th pope/bishop of Rome

436

RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Sixtus III is the 44th pope/bishop of Rome

437

RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Sixtus III is the 44th pope/bishop of Rome

438

RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Sixtus III is the 44th pope/bishop of Rome

439

RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Sixtus III is the 44th pope/bishop of Rome

The Vandal ruler Gaiseric enters Carthage almost unopposed and plunders the city, Carthage is under Vandal rule (a Germanic people who maintained a kingdom in North Africa from 429 to 534, and who sack Rome in 455) until a Byzantine army under Belisarius enters the city unopposed in 533, the Arabs capture it in 705 (Encyclopedia Britannica)

440

RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Sixtus III, the 44th pope/bishop of Rome dies and Leo I succeeds him

August 18, Pope Sixtus III dies and Leo I succeeds him as 45th pope/bishop of Rome

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Attila Takes on the Roman Empire

Led by Attila, the Huns devastate the Balkan region (approx. present-day Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) and Thrace (approx. present-day Romania and Bulgaria) and attack Greece; Attila then extracts tribute from the Eastern Roman emperor (History of the World, Map by Map, Pg. 80)