5th century

Categories: 5th century | Centuries

Overview

Events

• Rome sacked by Visigoths in 410.
• Attila the Hun conquers large parts of Europe, threatens to attack Rome in 452
• Pope Leo I allegedly meets personally with Atilla and convinces him to leave Rome alone.
• Vandals conquer Carthage in 439, sack Rome in 455
• At some point after 440, the Anglo-Saxons settle in Britain. The traditional story is that they were invited there by Vortigern.
• Last Roman ruler of Western Roman Empire leaves in 476. Europe enters the Middle ages, beginning with the Dark Ages.
• Buddhism reaches Myanmar and Indonesia.
• According to the Book of Mormon, Moroni buries the Golden Plates and ends the record around 421.
• African and Indonesian settlers reach Madagascar.
• Augustine writes The City of God

Significant persons

• Augustine of Hippo, bishop, theologian
• Niall Noigiallach, founder of one of Ireland's greatest dynasties.
• St. Jerome hermit, cleric, Bible translator
• Bodhidharma
• Theoderic the Great, Ostrogothic king
• Attila the Hun
• St. Patrick, completed the conversion to Christianity in Ireland
• Alaric I, king of the Visigoths that sacked Rome
• Flavius Aëtius, last of the great Roman generals
• Pope Leo I

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• stirrup invented in China
• heavy plow in use in Slavic lands
• metal horseshoes become common in Gaul
• Anglo-Saxon Futhorc alphabet used in England

Decades and years

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