PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY.
400. Alaric the Visigoth invades Italy.
406. German tribes invade Gaul.
407. The Saliana, the chief tribes of the Franks settled. in' Belgium. Burgundian from the Vistula cross the Rhine.
409. German tribes invade Spain.
410. Mark captures and plunders Rome.
411. Burgundians pass through Germany into France and settle on the Rhone.
418. The Visigoths enter Gaul and Spain, and found the kingdom of the Visigoths at Toulouse.• 420. The Long dynasty is established in China by General Lieoyu.
426. The Romans, threatened at home, withdraw from Britain, advising the Britons to arm and trust in them selves.
431. The council of Ephesus.
432. Patrick the apostle converts Ireland to Christianity.
439. The Vandals who had absorbed Mani invade Africa and capture Carthage.
440. Leo I the Great, bishop of Rome.
447. The duns Attila ravage the Eastern Empire sad make Constantinople tributary, 449. Vortigern, king of the Britons. asks the aid of Saxons from the )Elbe Weser against the Scots and Picts. 451. The Council of Chalcedon. Attila invades the West and is defeated at Ch6lons.
453. He invades Italy, and dies suddenly.
454. The Ostrogoth. are subdued by the Huns.
455. The Vandals under Genseric or Gaiseric return from, Africa and loot Rome. The Saxons establish them selves in Kent, England, under Hengist and the Britons are driven into Wales and Cornwall.
442. The Visigoths in Gaul and Spain.
474. Having extended their territory in Galicia, Spain, and on the Rhone and Loire. Gaul, the Visigoths adopt the written law.
475. Romulus Augustulus, the last Roman emperor.
476. He is deposed and the western Roman empire ends. Odoacer becomes king of Italy.
482. Clovis becomes lung of the Pranks occupying the territory from the Rhine to the Seine and Loire.
489. The Goths under Theodoric invade Italy.
492. Gelasius becomes Pope of Rome.
493. Theodoric becomes king of Italy.
495. The West Saxons land in Britain.
496. Clovis. Icing of the Franks, becomes a Christian. SClalroniall tripes from Russia, following the migration of nations and occupying Eastern Europe from the Oder to the Adriatic. seize Poland and Bohemia.