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

(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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

The Eastern Roman Church finally makes a denunciation of Pelagius, the Celtic Christian who believes in Free Will verses Predestination; "The Celtic Church was considered riddled with 'Pelagian heresy' almost to the end of its days." (The Druids, pg. 184)

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland 

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland 

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

The Annals of Ulster (annals which treat of Ireland and Irish history) are most likely starting to be written at this time (thought the most recent copy we have is from the 1300's) (The Druids, pg. 204)

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland

 

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 – Laoghaire is High King of Ireland