400 To 449400c - India Gupta empire grows until it stretches across the whole width of India
x - India Kalidasa Sanskrit dramatist and poet flourished.
401apr 10 - Theodosius II, the Younger, Eastern Roman emperor, is born.
402x - Stilicho recalls one of the two British legions to assist with the defense of Italy against Alaric and the Visigoths. The barbarians were defeated, this time, at battle of Pollentia.
apr 06 - Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten.
403x - Christianity Victricius, Bishop of Rouen, visits Britain for the purpose of bringing peace to the island's clergy, who are in the midst of a dispute, possibly over the Pelagian heresy.
404jan 01 - Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered.
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jan 01 - Last gladiator competition in Rome.
oct 06 - Eudoxia Aelia, empress of Austria, dies.
405x - The British troops, which had been recalled to assist Stilicho in 402, were never returned to Britain. They had to stay in Italy to fight a deeper penetration by the barbarian chieftain, Radagaisus.
406jan 00 - A combined barbarian force of Suevi, Alans, Vandals, and Burgundians swept into central Gaul, severing contact between Rome and Britain .
aug 23 - Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians.
fal 23 - The remaining Roman army in Britain mutinies. Marcus was proclaimed emperor in Britain, but was immediately assassinated.
dec 31 - 80,000 Vandels attack the Rhine at Mainz.
dec 31 - Godagisel, king of the Vandals, dies in battle.
407x - Britain Gratian was elevated "to the purple," but lasted only four months. Constantine III is hailed as the new emperor by Roman garrison in Britian. He proceeded to follow the example of Magnus Maximus 383 by withdrawing the remaining Roman legion, the Second Augusta, and crossing over into Gaul to rally support for his cause. Constantine's departure could be what Nennius called "the end of the Roman Empire in Britain. . ."
sep 14 - Johannes Chrysostomus, patriarch, dies.
408x - With both Roman legions withdrawn, Britain endure devastating attacks by the Picts, Scots and Saxons.
409x - Under enormous pressure, Britons take matters into their own hands, expelling weak Roman officials and fighting for themselves.
410x - Visigoths under Alaric destroy Rome.
aug 18 - King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies & plunders Rome.
aug 24 - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire.
412feb 08 - St Proclus, patriarch of Constantinople, is born.
413x - Pelagian heresy said to have begun, by Prosper Tiro of Aquitaine in his "Chronicle."
oct 10 - Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57.
414jan 01 - King Ataulf of Narbonne marries emperor Honorius sister Galle Placidia.
417mar 11 - Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome.
mar 12 - Innocent I, Italian Pope r.401-417, dies. re.List of Popes
mar 18 - St Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
418x - Pelagian heresy outlawed in Rome
x - Christianity Jerom finishes the Vulgate . For the next Millennia the primary approved bible.
mar 10 - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire.
dec 26 - St Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
dec 27 - Etalius begins his reign as Catholic Pope. re.List of Popes
dec 28 - St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. re.List of Popes
419apr 03 - Etalius ends his reign as Catholic Pope. re.List of Popes
420x - Britain Pelagian heresy enjoys much support from "pro-Celtic" faction. Traditionalists "pro-Romans" support Roman church.
421feb 08 - Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman emp.
mar 25 - Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded.
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jun 07 - Eudocia A Athenais marries Oostromeins emperor Theodosius II.
sep 02 - Flavius Constantine III, emperor of Westromeinse, dies at about 51.
422sep 04 - St Boniface I dies ending his reign as Catholic Pope. re.List of Popes
sep 04 - Boniface I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies. re.List of Popes
sep 10 - St Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. re.List of Popes
423429x - At the request of Palladius, a British deacon, Pope Celestine I dispatches bishops Germanus of Auxerre and Lupus of Troyes to Britain to combat Pelagian heresy.
x - Britain Bishop Germanus, a former military man, leads Britons to "Hallelujah" victory in Wales.
jan 16 - Honoratius of Arles, bishop/saint, dies [or 430].
430aug 28 - Aurelius Augustinus, church elder/thinker (Belijdenissen), dies at 75.
431x - Christianity The Schism over the teachings of Nestorius: The Church in the East and West are hereafter separated.
jun 22 - Council of Ephesus 3rd Ecumenical council opens.
432mar 17 - St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave.
jul 27 - St Celestine I dies ending his reign as Catholic Pope.r.422-432 List of Popes
jul 31 - St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope. re.List of Popes
438c - Birth of Ambrosius Aurelianus, scion of the leading Romano-British family in Britain .
439oct 29 - Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago.
dec 31 - Melania the Younger a.c.56, Roman monastery founder and saint, dies.
440c - Britain Period of civil war and famine. Vacated towns and cities are in ruins and there is a migration of pro-Roman citizens toward west while the country beginning to be divided, geographically, along factional lines. u.c.450 Caused by ruling council's weakness and inability to deal with Pictish invasions. The situation aggravated by tensions between Pelagian/Roman factions.
aug 19 - Sixtus III, Italian Pope r.432-440, dies. re.List of Popes
sep 29 - Pope Leo I the Great, installed. re.List of Popes
441c - Gallic Chronicle records, prematurely, that "Britain, abandoned by the Romans, passed into the power of the Saxons."
444jun 27 - Cyrillus van Alexandria, patriarch of Alexandria, dies.
445c - Britain Vortigern comes to power.
446c - Britain Vortigern authorizes the use of Saxon mercenaries, known as foederati, for the defense of the northern parts against barbarian attack. To guard against further Irish incursions, Cunedda and his sons are moved from Manau Gododdin in northern Britain to northwest Wales.
x - Britons (probably the pro-Roman party) appeal to Aetius, Roman governor of Gaul, for military assistance in their struggle against the Picts and the Irish (Scots). No help could be sent, at this time, as Aetius had his hands full with Attila the Hun.
447c - Britain Britons, aroused to heroic effort, "inflicted a massacre" on their enemies, the Picts and Irish, and were left in peace, for a brief time.
x - Second visit of St. Germanus, accompanied by Severus, Bishop of Trier, to Britain.
448c - Death of St. Germanus in Ravenna. Civil war and plague ravage Britain.
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