| CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
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| 461-431 B.C.
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Age of Pericles
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| 451-449 B.C.
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Twelve Tables of Roman Law
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| 336-323 B.C.
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Reign of Alexander the Great
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| 31 B.C.-14 A.D.
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Reign of Augustus Caesar and foundation of the Roman Empire
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| A.D. 70
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Destruction of Jerusalem
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| 98
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Germania of Tacitus
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| 98-117
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Reign of Trajan; Roman Empire at its greatest extent
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| 161-180
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Reign of Marcus Aurelius; signs of decline
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|
| 227
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Persian Kingdom replaces the Parthian
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| 251
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Decius defeated and slain by the Goths
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| 284-305
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Reign of Diocletian
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| 325
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Council of Nicsea called by Constantine the Great
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| 378
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Battle of Adrianople
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| 395
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Death of Theodosius the Great
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| 410
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Sack of Rome by Alaric
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| 413-426
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The City of God of Augustine
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| 419
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Kingdoms of West Goths and Burgundians in southwestern and southeastern Gaul
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| 438
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The Theodosian Code
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| 439
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Carthage captured by the Vandals
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| 440-461
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Pope Leo the Great
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| c. 450
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Britain invaded by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
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| 451
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Battle of the Catalaunian Fields or Chalons
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| 455
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Valentinian III assassinated
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|
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Rome sacked by the Vandals
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| 466-484
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Reign of Euric, King of the West Goths; conquest of Spain begun
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|
| 476
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Transition from the Roman to the Byzantine Empire
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| 481-511
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Reign of Clovis, King of the Franks
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| 493-526
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Reign of Theodoric, the East Goth, in Italy
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| 518-565
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Reigns of Justin and Justinian
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| 529
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The Rule of St. Benedict
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| 533
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The Digest or Pandects of Justinian
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| 534
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Byzantine conquest of North Africa from the Vandals
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Frankish conquest of the Burgundian Kingdom
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|
| 555
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Byzantine conquest of Italy from the East Goths
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| 565
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Mission of St. Columba to Iona, Scotland
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| 568
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Lombards invade Italy
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Avars invade central Europe
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|
| 582
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Fall of Sirmium
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| 590-604
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Pope Gregory the Great
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