Emily McCrea

Roman legions evacuate Britannia in 406 AD

The Anglo-Saxons move into Britannia

The Huns push other groups westward, even-tually into Roman territory.

Aleric and the Visigoths destroy Rome, 410AD

Constantius III invades Visigoth-controlledRome to take it back

The Germanic tribes and Roman forces join together to defend against the attacking Huns led by Attila the Hun

They defeat the Huns and Attila is forced to stop westward expansion

In 475 AD, Orestes, aRoman general, forcedthe emperor (Nepos) offof the throne andappointed his own sonas new ruler

Hired mercenaries triedto convince Oresties togive them 1/3 of Italy

When he refused, themercenaries (led byOdoacer) killed him andappointed Odoacer asruler

By 500, different German kings ruled different portions of the Western Roman Empire

They had documents proving that they were only representatives of the “true kings” and they were there to reunite the empire

The outbreak of the Bubonic plague in 541 weakened the empire and made it more prone to invasions

Attempted to take back the western empire from the Germanic rulers (mid 500s)

His successors gave up on the western empire and allowed invaders to take what had been restored

Lombards, led by Albion, invade Italy in early 568

They take control but have a weak rule

Vikings start invading around 600

They came from northern Europe and would attack Britain and the area around northern Europe

In 732, Charles Martel leads a Frankish army and defeats the Ummayads, ending the spread of Islam in Europe

In 753, Pepin the Short is appointed and starts the Carolingian Dynasty

In 800, Charlamagne is appointed by the Pope as the Holy Roman Emperor

With Charlamagne’s death in 814, the empire weakens

In 840, a Frankish civil war ends in a 3-way division among the previous kings three sons

Alfred the Great gains control of most Britain and establishes it as the Kingdom of England (899)

King Charles the Simple gives part of northern France to the Vikings and the land is established as Normandy (911)

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http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fallofrome.htm

http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/reference/worldhistory/sections/12barbar.html

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/germanic-invasions-400-1000