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410
Visigoths sack Rome under king Alaric
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418
Franks take Gaul
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431
Council of Ephesus
Third Echumenical - defined Mary to be mother of God -
445
Emp. Valentinian lll acknowledges papel supremacy
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451
Council of Chalcedon
Fourth ecumenical - defined the human and divine natures of Christ in one person -
452
St. Leo l (The Great) meets Atila the Hun
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476
End of Roman Empire, last western emperor is Romulus Augustulus.
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493
Theodoric the Ostrogoth becomes king of Italy
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528
St. Benedict founds monastery at Monte Cassino
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553
Second Council of Constantinople
Fifth ecumenical- called by Emperor Justinian -
570
Muhammad born at or near Mecca
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599
St Gregory, 590 - 604
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611
Muhammad has vision of archangel Gabriel
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624
Muhammad defeats Meccans at Battle of Baer
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637
Jerusalem captured by Muslim
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640
Library of Alexandria destroyed with 300,000 papyrus scrolls
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680
Third council of Constantinople
Sixth ecumenical council -
684
Dome of the Rock built over the temple