5th century
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Eastern Hemisphere at the beginning of the 5th century AD.
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Europe in 450
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Eastern Hemisphere at the end of the 5th century AD.
The
5th century is the period from
401 to
500 in accordance with the
Julian calendar in
Anno Domini/
Common Era.
Overview
This century is noted for being a time of repeated disaster and instability both internally and externally for the
Western Roman Empire, which finally unravelled, and came to an end in AD
476. The west was ruled by a succession of weak emperors, and true power began to fall increasingly into the hands of powerful generals. Internal instability and pressing military problems caused by foreign invaders finally resulted in the sacking of Rome by a
Visigoth army in
410. Some recovery was made in the following decades, but the Western Empire received a serious blow when another barbarian group, the
Vandals occupied
Carthage, capital of the extremely important province of
Africa, a major supplier of wealth and grain. Attempts to retake the province were interrupted by the invasions of the
Huns under
Atilla. After Atilla's final defeat and death both Eastern and Western empires joined forces for a final assault on Vandal North Africa, but their campaign was a spectacular failure.
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
The year
476 is widely understood as the point at which the
Western Roman Empire came to an end. In
476 the last Western Roman Emperor,
Romulus Augustus (nicknamed
Augustulus "Little Augustus") was deposed by a Germanic
foederati general named
Odoacer. The Eastern Roman Empire finally ceased trying to prop up its hopeless Western twin, whose former lands were then divided into numerous
barbarian kingdoms. The last de-facto Western Roman Emperor,
Julius Nepos was murdered in Dalmatia in 480 AD. The last fragment of the Western Empire, the
Domain of Soissons ruled by Duke
Syagrius, was conquered by the Frankish King
Clovis in 486. Roman power continued in the east however, under the rulers of Constantinople. Scholars normally refer to their empire as the
Byzantine Empire, however its inhabitants considered themselves Roman throughout. Recognizable Roman culture continued to exist in the east for another 200 years before the Arab invasions of the
7th Century set off a chain of events that forever changed the face of the
Eastern Roman Empire, and the entity that emerged in the next few centuries is what one might refer to as the true
Medieval Byzantine Empire.
Events
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Romulus Augustus, Last Western Roman Emperor
Significant persons
- Agatharcos — Greek artist
- Flavius Aëtius, last of the great Roman generals
- Alaric I, king of the Visigoths that sacked Rome
- Aspar, Eastern Roman general and politician
- Attila the Hun
- Augustine of Hippo, bishop, theologian
- Bodhidharma, founder of Zen Buddhism
- John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Clovis, first Frankish king to unite all the Frankish peoples
- Cyril of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria
- Faxian, Chinese Buddhist monk
- Geiseric, Vandal king and founder of the Vandal kingdom in North Africa
- Hawaiiloa, discovered and settled Hawaii
- Huiyuan, Chinese Buddhist
- Hypatia of Alexandria, woman philosopher
- St. Jerome hermit, cleric, Bible translator
- Pope Leo I
- Ricimer, Western Roman general, politician and ruler
- Saint Mesrob, Armenian monk
- Niall Noigiallach, founder of one of Ireland's greatest dynasties.
- St. Patrick, completed the conversion to Christianity in Ireland
- Socrates Scholasticus, Byzantine Church historian
- Sozomen, Christian church historian
- Theoderic the Great, Ostrogothic king
- Zu Chongzhi, Chinese astronomer and mathematician
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Other
The
gomphothere , an elephant-like species, becomes extinct.
References
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[Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.]
Decades and years
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