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410
Visigoths sack Rome under king Alaric
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418
Franks take Gaul
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430
St. Augustine dies
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431
Council of Epshesus—third Ecumenical—defined Mary to be the Mother of God
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445
Emp. Valentinian III acknowledges papal supremacy
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451
Council of Chalcedon; — fourth Ecumenical—defined the human and divine natures of Christ in one Persom
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452
St. Leo I (the great) meets Attila the Hun
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476
End of Roman Empire, last western empower is Romulus Augustulus
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493
Theodoric the Ostrogoth becomes king of Italy
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520
Muhammad born at or near Mecca
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529
St. Benedict founds monastery at Monte Cassino
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553
Second Council of Constantinople—fifth Ecumenical—called by Emperor Justinian
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599
St. Gregory, (590-604)
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611
Muhammad has vision or archangel Gabriel
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624
Muhammad’s defeats Meccans at Battle of Badr
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637
Jerusalem captured by Muslim
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640
Library of Alexandria destroyed with 300,000 ancient papyrus scrolls
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680
Third Council of Constantinople — sixth Ecumenical
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684
Dome of the Rock built over the temple