Part 74

+-------+---------------------+-------------------------------------------+ |=A. D.=| =Britain= | =Western Part of the Roman Empire= | | | | =Spain= | =Gaul (Franks)= | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ | | =I. | | | | | Roman Period= | | | | | (B.C. 55-410 A.D.) | | | | =400= | | | | | | |409. Gerontius, the | | | |410. The Roman troops|Roman governor, in- | | | |being gradually with-|vites the Vandals, |412. Ataulphus, with | | |drawn, the natives |Alani and Suevi into |the Visigoths, | | |become independent. |Spain. |leaves Italy, con- | | | | |quers Narbonne and | | | |415. The empire of |Toulouse. | | | |the Visigoths. | | | =425= |_The Scots and Picts | | | | |continually harass |429. Empire of the | | | |the island, and the |Vandals. |448-456. Merovius | | |Franks and Saxons | |powerfully assists in| | |infest its coast._ | |the defeat of Attila,| | | | |and thus gives his | | | =II. Anglo-Saxon | |name to the first | | | Period= | |race of French kings.| | | (449-1066) | | | | =450= | | |450. Dynasty of the | | | |451. Invasion of |=Merovingians.= | | | |ATTILA, with half a | | | |455-556. Saxon |million Huns. The | | | |Octarchy. |Huns under Attila, | | | | |called the “Scourge | | | |455. Hengist founds |of God,” defeated by |455. The Britons | | |the kingdom of Kent. |the confederate |settle in Bretagne. | | | |armies of Romans and | | | | |Visigoths at |457. Childeric con- | | | |=Chalons=. |quers to the Loire, | | | | |including Paris. | | | |466-483. Gothic | | | =475= | |Monarchy of Spain. | | | | +---------------------+---------------------+ | | | _NEW NATIONS FORMED OUT OF THE ROMAN | | | | EMPIRE_ | | | +---------------------+---------------------+ | | | =Spain= | =Franks= | | | +---------------------+---------------------+ | | | =Kingdom of the | =Kingdom of the | | | | Visigoths.= | Franks.= | | | +---------------------+---------------------+ | | | |481-511. CLOVIS the | | | | |true founder of the | | | | |French monarchy: | | | | |capital Paris. | | | | | | | | | |486. Defeats Syagrius| | | | |at Soissons. END OF | | | | |THE ROMAN DOMINION. | | | | | | | | | |496. Conversion of | | =500= | | |Clovis. He defeats | | | |508-522. Theodoric |the Alamanni. | | |519. Kingdom of |the Great, King of | | | |Wessex (West Saxons) |the Ostrogoths, rules| | | |which ultimately |the affairs of Spain | | | |unites to itself the |--he preserves Nar- | | | |whole English |bonne, wrested from | | | |monarchy. |the Visigoths by | | | | |Clovis, to this em- | | | | |pire, but joins Arles| | | | |and Provence to his | | | | |own. | | | | | | | | | |522-531. Amalaric, | | | =525= | |the first Gothic king| | | | |who establishes his |536. Witiges, King of| | | |court in Spain: |the Ostrogoths, sur- | | | |capital, Seville. |renders his posses- | | | | |sions in Gaul to the | | | | |Franks. | | | | | | | | | |537. Witiges besieges| | | | |Belisarius in Rome. | | | | | | | | | |540. Byzantine power | | | | |established in Italy.| | =550= | | | | | | | |558-561. Clotaire | | | | |sole monarch. | | | | | | | | | |561. Chilperic I. | | | | |(the French Nero), | | | | |King of Neustria, | | | | |married the beautiful| | | | |Fredegonda. | | | | | | | | | |561-575. Sigebert, | | | | |King of Austrasia, | | | | |wife Brunehilda. | | =575= |575. East-Anglia, is | | | | |formed into a king- | | | | |dom. The name of | | | | |_Angle-land_ was | | | | |given to a small part| | | | |of the eastern coast,| | | | |_East-Engla-land_. | | | | | | | | | |586. The kingdom of |586-601. Recared good| | | |Mercia was the last |and prosperous reign | | | |founded by the |establishes the | | | |Angles. |Catholic faith | | | | |throughout Spain--the| | | |588-828. WARS OF THE |clergy obtain great | | | |HEPTARCHY. |authority. | | | | | | | | |590-616. Supremacy of|_The Latin language | | | |Ethelbert, King of |supersedes the | | | |Kent. |Gothic._ | | | =600= | | | | | |Ethelbert publishes | | | | |the first _Code of | | | | |Laws_ in Britain. | |613-628. Clotaire | | | | |II., sole monarch, | | | | |grandson of Clovis, | | | | |his power extends | | | | |over all the Gauls to| | | | |the Pyrenees--the | | | | |Saxons and Lombards | | | | |tributary: capital, | | | | |Paris. | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+

+-------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |=A. D.=| =Western Part of the Roman Empire= | | | =Germans= | =Italy= | =Church= | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ | | |395-423. Honorius, | | | | |Emperor. Capital | | | | |Rome, Ravenna imperi-| | | | |al residence after | | | | |402. | | | =400= | | |400. CHRYSOSTOM, | | | | |patriarch of Con- | | | | |stantinople; _ST. | | | | |AUGUSTINE_. | | | | | | | | |402. ALARIC invades |402. Pope Innocent I.| | | |Italy. Stilicho col- | | | | |lects an army from | | | | |Gaul, Britain, etc., | | | | |and defeats him at | | | | |Pollentia and Verona.| | | | | | | | | |408. Stilicho slain. | | | | |Alaric’s third inva- | | | | |sion. | | | | | | | | | |410. Alaric captures | | | | |and sacks Rome. |412. Cyril, Bishop of| | |413. =Kingdom of the | |Alexandria. | | |Burgundians= founded | | | | |by Gondicar. | |416. The Pelagian | | | | |heresy condemned by | | | | |the African bishops. | | | | | | | | | |422. Pope Celestine | | | |423-455. The greater |I. | | =425= | |part of Gaul and | | | | |Spain lost. |432. St. Patrick | | | | |preaches the Gospel | | | |437. Pannonia, |in Ireland. | | | |Dalmatia and Noricum,| | | | |lost to the Greek |440. Pope LEO I. the | | |449. The Saxon in- |Empire. |Great, greatly ex- | | |vasion of England. | |tends the power of | | | | |the bishop of Rome. | | =450= | | | | | | | |451. The fourth gene-| | | |452. Attila returns |ral council at Chal- | | | |from Gaul into Italy.|cedon, at which | | | |Pope Leo saves Rome. |Eutychianism and | | | | |Nestorianism are | | | |455-476. From the |solemnly condemned. | | | |assassination of | | | | |Valentinian, ten | | | | |emperors rapidly | | | | |succeed. | | | | | | | | | |455. Genseric and the| | | |456. The Alemanni |Vandals plunder Rome.| | | |follow the Burgun- | | | | |dians into Alsace. |461. Ricimer, leader | | | |The river Aar in |of the Goths, reigns | | | |Switzerland becomes |under the name of | | | |the boundary between |Severus III. | | | |them. | | | | | |474. Ricimer sacks | | | | |Rome. | | | =475= | | | | | | |476. ODOACER, King of| | | | |the Heruli, over- | | | | |throws the Western | | | | |Empire, and founds | | | | |the Kingdom of Italy.| | | +---------------------+---------------------+ | | | _NEW NATIONS FORMED OUT OF THE ROMAN | | | | EMPIRE_ | | | +---------------------+---------------------+482. The Emperor Zeno| | | =Germans= | =Italy= |publishes the | | +---------------------+---------------------+_Henoticon_. | | |491-516. Gondebald, | | | | |King of Burgundy. | |492. Pope Gelasius I.| | | |493. Italy conquered |He advances bold | | | |by THEODORIC, King of|claims to authority. | | | |the Ostrogoths. | | | | |Odoacer put to death.| | | | | | | | | |=493-555. Kingdom of | | | | |the East Goths= |496. Christianity in-| | | |(Ostrogoths) in |troduced among the | | | |Italy. |Franks, whose king, | | | | |Clovis, accepts | | =500= | |500. Edict of |baptism. | | |506. Burgundy tribu- |Theodoric. | | | |tary to the Franks. | | | | | |508. Conquest of | | | |516. Sigismond. |Arles and Provence. | | | | | |518. The accession of| | |523. Godomar. | |Justin marks the | | | | |downfall of the | | | | |Monophysites. | | =525= | | | | | | | |527. Separation of | | | | |the Armenian from the| | | | |Greek Church. | | | | | | | | | |529. The Order of | | | | |Benedictine Monks in-| | | | |stituted at Monte | | | | |Cassino, near Naples.| | | | | | | | |533-555. WARS OF JUSTINIAN AGAINST THE | | | |VANDALS AND OSTROGOTHS. | | | | | | | | |535-553. Unsuccessful| | | | |war with Justinian, | | | | |the troops revolt and| | | | |elect Vitiges, 536- | | | | |541. | | | | | | | | | |536. Belisarius takes| | | | |Rome. | | | | | | | | | |537. It endures a | | | | |long and disastrous | | | | |siege from Vitiges. | | | | | | | | | |541-552. Totila re- | | | | |establishes the |544. In the Edict of | | | |powers of the Ostro- |the Three Chapters, | | | |goths. |Justinian largely re-| | =550= | | |pudiates the work of | | | |552. Narses, the |the Council of Chal- | | | |general of Justinian,|cedon. | | | |invades Italy, over- | | | | |throws the Gothic | | | | |monarchy. | | | | | | | | | |554. Italy under | | | | |Greek Exarchs. |560. Pope John III. | | | | |The Tritheists main- | | | | =Kingdom of the |tain the separate | | | | Lombards= |existence of the | | | | |persons of the | | |Many Germanic tribes,|568. Italy conquered |Trinity. | | |particularly the |by the Lombards under| | | |Bavarians and Saxons |Alboin. He later | | | |join the Lombards and|fixes his capital at | | | |Avars in their inva- |Pavia. | | | |sion of Italy. | | | | | |568-752. The | | | | |Exarchate of Ravenna | | | | |established. | | | =575= | | | | | | |580. The Latin | | | | |language ceases to be|590-604. GREGORY I. | | | |spoken in Italy, |the Great. | | | |while it supersedes |Canon of the mass | | | |Gothic in Spain. |established. | | =600= | | | | | | | |607-614. Boniface IV.| | | | | | | | | |_The Anglo-Saxons | | | | |embrace Christianity | | | | |--as do also, during | | | | |this century, the | | | | |Frieslanders, West- | | | | |phalians, Thuringi- | | | | |ans, Danes, Swedes, | | | | |Germans, and Franks._| +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+