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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