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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
461-431 B.C. Age of Pericles
451-449 B.C. Twelve Tables of Roman Law
336-323 B.C. Reign of Alexander the Great
31 B.C.-14 A.D. Reign of Augustus Caesar and foundation of the Roman Empire
A.D. 70 Destruction of Jerusalem
98 Germania of Tacitus
98-117 Reign of Trajan; Roman Empire at its greatest extent
161-180 Reign of Marcus Aurelius; signs of decline
227 Persian Kingdom replaces the Parthian
251 Decius defeated and slain by the Goths
284-305 Reign of Diocletian
325 Council of Nicsea called by Constantine the Great
378 Battle of Adrianople
395 Death of Theodosius the Great
410 Sack of Rome by Alaric
413-426 The City of God of Augustine
419 Kingdoms of West Goths and Burgundians in southwestern and southeastern Gaul
438 The Theodosian Code
439 Carthage captured by the Vandals
440-461 Pope Leo the Great
c. 450 Britain invaded by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
451 Battle of the Catalaunian Fields or Chalons
455 Valentinian III assassinated
Rome sacked by the Vandals
466-484 Reign of Euric, King of the West Goths; conquest of Spain begun
476 Transition from the Roman to the Byzantine Empire
481-511 Reign of Clovis, King of the Franks
493-526 Reign of Theodoric, the East Goth, in Italy
518-565 Reigns of Justin and Justinian
529 The Rule of St. Benedict
533 The Digest or Pandects of Justinian
534 Byzantine conquest of North Africa from the Vandals
Frankish conquest of the Burgundian Kingdom
555 Byzantine conquest of Italy from the East Goths
565 Mission of St. Columba to Iona, Scotland
568 Lombards invade Italy
Avars invade central Europe
582 Fall of Sirmium
590-604 Pope Gregory the Great