Light in the Dark Ages

  • Period: 400 to 423

    Honorius - Western Empire

  • 410

    Visigoths sack Rome under King Alaric

  • 418

    Frank takes Gaul

  • Period: 423 to 440

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  • 430

    St. Augustine dies

  • 431

    Council of Ephesus - third Ecumenical - defined Mary to be the Mother of God

  • Period: 440 to 460

    St. Leo I

  • 445

    Emp. Valentinian III acknowledges papal supremacy

  • 451

    Council of Chalcedon - fourth Ecumenical

    defined the human and divine natures of Christ in one person
  • 452

    St. Leo I (the great) meets Attila the Hun

  • Period: 461 to 474

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  • Period: 474 to 491

    Zeno - Eastern Emp.

  • 476

    End of Roman Empire, last western explorer is Romulus Augustulus

  • Period: 491 to 539

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  • 493

    Theodoric the Ostrogoth becomes king of Italy

  • Period: 539 to 565

    Justinian - East. Emp.