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| 451 |
| | | Attila and the Huns invade Gaul but are defeated, somewhere near Troyes, by a Roman army supported by Visigoths and Burgundians | |
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| 452 |
| | | Attila invades and ravages northern Italy, but turns back before reaching Rome - possibly influenced by the diplomacy of Leo I | |
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| 455 |
| | | Gaiseric and the Vandals enter Rome and sack the city, but their violence is perhaps restrained by Leo I | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | The Czechs are the most powerful of the various Slav tribes by now settled in Bohemia | |
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| 518 |
| | | The Slavs cross the Danube and press southwards into the Roman provinces of Moesia and Thracia | |
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| c. 550 |
| | | The Slavs arrive in the Balkans and settle in all parts of the region except Albania | |
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| c. 550 |
| | | Most of Spain is by now in the hands of the Visigoths, though for a while the Byzantines win back territories in the south | |
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| c. 550 |
| | | If there is any historical basis for the legendary King Arthur, it is as a Celtic chieftain resisting the Anglo-Saxons in the sixth century | |
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| 568 |
| | | The Lombards invade northern Italy, and within four years occupy it as far south as the Po | |
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| 569 |
| | | Fugitives from the Lombard invasion of northern Italy take refuge on islands in the Venetian lagoon - and become the founders of Venice | |
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