(Feature Photo: Illustration of the murder of Attila the Hun after his wedding ceremony in 453; Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
450
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I, king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France), dies, and is succeeded by Thorismund – Valentinian III is emperor of the Western Roman Empire – Theodosius II, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, dies, and is succeeded by Marcian – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
Theodoric I, king of the Visigoths, is killed in the Battle of Catalaunian Plains, and is succeeded by his son, Thorismund
July 29, Theodosius II, the Roman Emperor in the east, dies, and is succeeded by Marcian
451
RULERS & ROYALTY: Thorismund is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France), dies, and is succeeded by Thorismund – Valentinian III is emperor of the Western Roman Empire – Marcian is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
452
RULERS & ROYALTY: Thorismund is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Valentinian III is emperor of the Western Roman Empire – Marcian is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
453
RULERS & ROYALTY: Thorismund, king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France), is murdered, and succeeded by his brother Theodoric II – Valentinian III is emperor of the Western Roman Empire – Marcian is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
454
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric II is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Valentinian III is emperor of the Western Roman Empire – Marcian is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
Aetius, who is ruling in the Western Roman Empire as magister militum is personally assassinated by Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III (as a direct result, Valentinian commits suicide next year) (The Inheritance of Rome, Pg. 83)
455
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric II is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Valentinian III, emperor of the Western Roman Empire, dies and won't be succeeded by a legitimate heir until 457 – Marcian is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
Vandals (a Germanic people) sack Rome
March 16, Valentinian III, emperor of the Western Roman Empire, commits suicide
456
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric II is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Marcian is emperor of the Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
The Visigoths begin to expand their kingdom in southern Gaul (modern-day southern France) (History of the World, Map by Map, Pg. 80)
457
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric II is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Marcian, the Roman Emperor in the east, dies, and he is succeeded by Leo I (emperor not pope) – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
January 27, Marcian, the Roman Emperor in the east, dies, and he is succeeded by Leo I (emperor not pope)
Britons flee Kent after an Anglo-Saxon victory at Aylesford (History of the World, Map by Map, Pg. 80)
458
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric II is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Leo I (emperor not pope) is emperor of eastern Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
459
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric II is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Leo I (emperor not pope) is emperor of eastern Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
460
RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric II is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Leo I (emperor not pope) is emperor of eastern Roman Empire – Leo I is the 45th pope/bishop of Rome
461
RULERS & ROYALTY: Pope Leo I dies and Pope Hilarius is installed as Bishop of Rome
March 17, Patricius (St. Patrick) dies in Ireland (b. 385)
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The Roman Empire falls
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