(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)
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441
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
Germanic peoples from northern Europe begin to settle in Britain (History of the World, Map by Map, Pg.80)
442
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
443
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
444
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
445
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
446
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
447
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
448
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) –Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
449
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome