CHRONOLOGY. 



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512. 

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516. 



517. 



The paschal cycle of 532 years invented by Victo- 

 rius, of Aquitain. 



The Vandals expelled from Sicily. 



The Romans defeat the Goths. Rogation-day in- 

 stituted. 



The. Romans defeat the Vandals. 



The Romans driven by the Visigoths out of Spain. 



Sidonius Apollinaris, ob. 482, set. 52. 



A great eruption of Vesuvius. 



Leo I. and Leo II. die. 



Three hundred British nobles treacherously massa- 

 cred by Hengist. The Romans defeat the Saxons. 

 Gelasius, of Cyzicum. 



The kingdom of Italy begins. The western em- 

 pire ended. A dreadful fire in Constantinople. 



Peter, sirnamed the Fuller, ob. 486. 



An earthquake which lasts 40 days, destroys the 

 greater part of Constantinople. 



Christianity persecuted by Huneric king of the 

 Vandals. 



The Romans defeated at Soissons by Clovis. 



The Saxons defeated by the Britons under Ambro- 

 sius and prince Arthur. 



Odoacer defeated hy Theodoric. 



Ella founds the second Saxon kingdom of Sussex. 



The kingdom of Italy transferred from the Heruli 

 to the Otro-goths, by the capture of Ravenna. 

 Malchus, the sophist. 



The Roman pontiff asserts his supremacy. 



Timotheus Gazxus. 



Clovis baptized, and Christianity received in France. 

 Poland and Bohemia occupied by the Sclavonians. 



The Isauric war closes. 



Thrace ravaged by the Bulgarians. Fulgentius, 

 ob. 529. 



Syria and Phoenicia ravaged by the Saracens. 



SIXTH CENTURY. 



Anastasius makes peace with the Saracens. Gon- 

 debaud publishes his laws of the Burgundians. 



Cabades, king of Persia, destroys Anastasius's army. 

 The Pope resists the legal magistrate. 



Christianity persecuted by the Vandals. The Pan- 

 dects published. Magi prevail at Rome. 



The Persian war ends. 



The Theodoaian code reformed and published by 

 Arien. 



Alaric defeated and killed by Clovis, near Poitiers. 



A great fire at Constantinople. Arabia and Pales- 

 tine invaded by the Saracens. Alcimus Avitus, 

 ob. 523. 



Paris becomes the capital of the French dominions. 



A great insurrection at Constantinople. The Sax- 

 ons defeated in the battle of Badon-hill or Bath, 

 by Prince Arthur. 



An eruption of Vesuvius. 



Christianity embraced by the Persian and Saracen 

 kings. Boetius, the philosopher, ob. 524. 



Constantinople besieged by Vitalianus, whose fleet 

 it consumed by a burning mirror of Proclus. Cas- 

 sidorus, secretary to Theodoric, ob. 562, zt. about 

 100. 



Macedonia, Thessaly, &c. ravaged by the Getz. 

 The computation of time by the Christian zra 

 introduced by Dionysius the monk, called the 

 Little, ob. 5*0. 



Five years drought and pestilence in Palestine. 



A. D. 



518. Anastasius killed by lightning, aet. 88. 



519. Prince Arthur defeated at Charford by Cerdic, 



which begins the third Saxon kingdom ofWessex. 



520. The Anglo Saxons defeated at Bath by the Bri- 



tons. 



521. An earthquake at Corinth. Hesychius of Miletus. 



522. The Moors defeat and kill Thrasamond, king of the 



Vandals. 



524. An earthquake in Cilicia. 



525. Antioch destroyed by tire. Priscian, the gramma- 



rian. 



526. An earthquake at Antioch. 



528. Belisarius marches against the Persians. 



529. The code of Justinian published. The order of 



Benedictine monks instituted. Tribonianus, the 

 famous lawyer. 



532. A conspiracy at Constantinople. A great pesti- 



lence in Ethiopia. The kingdom of Burgundy 

 conquered by Childebert and Clotaire. 



533. The digest of Justinian published. Belisarius sent 



against the Vandals in Africa. In 531 or 533, a 

 comet appeared during twenty days. 



534. The kingdom of the Vandals finished by Belisarius, 



who took Carthage. Procopius, the historian. 



535. Belisarius gains Sicily. A comet seen in Sagitta- 



rius, in December. 



536. Belisarius takes Naples. The inhabitants of Con- 



stantinople taught by two Indian monks to fabri- 

 cate silk. 



537. Rome surrendered to Belisarius. French coin be- 



gins to be current through the Roman empire. 

 Count Marcellinus, the chronologer. 



539. Italy distressed with war, famine, and pestilence. 



The city of Milan razed by the Goth. Theo- 

 dobert takes the camps of the Romans and Goths. 



540. Vitiges taken by Belisarius in Ravenna. The 



Moors defeat the Romans. The king of Persia 

 destroys Antioch. 



541. Jornandes, the Gothic historian, ob. 552. 



542. Prince Arthur murdered in Cornwall. Antioch 



rebuilt. The Goths defeat the Romans on the 

 Po. 



543. Asia and Europe desolated by the plague. An 



earthquake of great extent, Sept. 6th. Totila, 



king of the Goths, seizes Tuscany, Campania, 



Puteoli, Naples, &c. 

 5-U'. The Persians defeat the Romans. 

 546. Totila takes and pillages Rome. Simplicius, the 



Peripatetic philosopher. 



549. Rome fortified by Totila. 



550. An earthquake in Palestine, Syria, &c. The state 



of Poland formed by Leek. 



551. The manufacture of silk brought from India into 



Europe. 



552. The empire of the Avars in Great Tartary ends. 



An earthquake in Greece, and a great commotion 

 in the sea. A great earthquake at Constanti- 

 nople. The fifth general council, or second of 

 Constantinople, held. 



. 553. Totila defeated by Narses, and killed. 

 554. Narses defeats and kills Teia, king of the Goths. 



556. A sedition of the Jews in Palestine. Civil wars 



in France. Gildas, the historian, ob. 570. 



557. A great earthquake at Rome, Constantinople, &c. 



558. A plague in Europe, Asia, and Africa, which 



lasts near 50 years. 



559. The Heptarchy began in England. 



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