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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 | |