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|- ! A.D. !! |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 277. || Mani crucified in Persia. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 284. || Diocletian became emperor. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 303. || Diocletian persecuted the Christians. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 311. || Galerius abandoned the persecution of the Christians. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 312. || Constantine the Great became emperor. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 313. || Constantine presided over a Christian Council at Arles. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 321. || Fresh Gothic raids driven back. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 323. || Constantine presided over the Council of Nicæa. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 337. || Vandals driven by Goths obtained leave to settle in Pannonia. Constantine baptized on his death-bed. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 354. || St. Augustine born. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 361-3. || Julian the Apostate attempted to substitute Mithraism for Christianity. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 379. || Theodosius the Great (a Spaniard) emperor. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 390. || The statue of Serapis at Alexandria broken up. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 392. || Theodosius the Great, emperor of east and west. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 395. || Theodosius the Great died. Honorius and Arcadius redivided the empire with Stilicho and Alaric as their masters and protectors. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 410. || The Visigoths under Alaric captured Rome. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 425. || Vandals settling in south of Spain. Huns in Pannonia, Goths in Dalmatia. Visigoths and Suevi in Portugal and North Spain. English invading Britain. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 429. || Vandals under Genseric invaded Africa. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 439. || Vandals took Carthage. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 448. || Priscus visited Attila. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 451. || Attila raided Gaul and was defeated by Franks, Alemanni, and Romans at Troyes. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 453. || Death of Attila. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 455. || Vandals sacked Rome. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 470. || Ephthalites' raid into India. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 476. || Odoacer, king of a medley of Teutonic tribes, informed Constantinople that there was no emperor in the West. End of the Western Empire. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 480. || St. Benedict born. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 481. || Clovis in France. The Merovingians. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 483. || Nestorian church broke away from the Orthodox Christian church. |}