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1485 BCE
Battle of Bosworth Field
The Battle of Bosworth Field took place in 1485 during the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England between the rival houses of Lancaster and York. -
476 BCE
The fall of the Western Roman Empire
The West was severely shaken in 410, when the city of Rome was sacked by the Visigoths, a wandering nation of Germanic peoples from the northeast.