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works of Homer, written in golden characters onthe great gut of a dragon 120 feet long.
4184 480 Zeno enters into an alliance with lluneric, king of
the Vandals.
The Goths are masters of all the places the Romansheld m Gaul.
4487 483 Leontimis, a native of Chalcis in Syria, proclaims
himself emperor, and creates great disturbancesfn the east, but the rebels are engaged and over-thrown at Seleucia, and four years after I.eon-tinus was beheaded, after defending himself in thecastle of Papvra at that time.
448!) 485 The Bulgarians break into Thrace, but are driven
back by Theodorie, the Roman general.
4402 488 Theodorie enters ltalv, overcomes Odoacer in several
battles, a''d founJs a new kingdom in Italy.
4493 489 The Goths pour into Italy, in great numbers, en-
counter and defeat Odoacer, and make themselvesmasters of Milan, Pavia, &c.
4494 490 The Goths besiege Odoacer, king of the Ileruli in
Italy, in Ravenna.
The Burgundians enter Italy and commit dreadfuldevastations in Liguria, and depopulate it to sucha degree that there are not left sullicient to till theground.
4495 491 Zeno, the eastern emperor, dies in the ISth year of
his reign, and is succeeded by Anastasias.
The Ileruli conquered by the Lombards, who obligedthem to live in subjection to them.
Ella founds the second Saxon kingdom in Britain,called the kingdom of the South Saxons in Essex.
4496 492 The revolted Saurians marching against the Romans
with an immense army, are by them defeatedwith great slaughter, and driven into themountains.
4497 493 The kingdom of Italy passes from the Ileruli to
the Ostrogoths, by the defeat of Odoacer byTheodorie.
4500 496 The Alemans out of Alsace, joined by those of
Switzerland, enter Germania Secunda, belongingto the Ripuarian Franks, and put all to the lire andsword.
4501 497 Longinus after having raised civil commotions in the
eastern empire and headed the Isaurian rebellionfor four years, is at last taken and beheaded.Clovis, king of the Franks, baptized, together withthree thousand of his subjects.
4502 498 The Arabs break into Palestine and Syria, but are
driven back by Eugenius, tile Roman com-mander.
The Armorici submit voluntarily to Clovis, king ofthe Franks, and become one nation ; upon whichthe Roman troops abandon the places they heldill Gaul, after they had been masters of Gaidmore than 500 years.
4503 499 The Bulgarians make dreadful havoc in Thrace.
4506 502 T hrace and Palestine again ravaged by the Bulgarians
and Saracens.
4511 507 The emperor Anastasius built the famous wall, called
the Long Wall, 20 feet broad, distant from (liecitv 280 furlongs, extending from sea to sea, atConstantinople, and defended the empire againstthe sudden irruptions of the barbarous nations.Clovis, the French king, totally defeats Alaric, kingof the Visigoths, in the plain of Yougle nearPoitiers; for which victory he is highly compli-mented by the Greek emperor Anastasius, andcalled consul.
4513 509 Clovis receiving a defeat from Theodorie, king of the
Visigoths, a peace is concluded between them.4314 510 Faris made the capital of the French kingdom by
Clovis, who adds the territories of the RipuarianFranks to his dominions.
Clovis having conquered, or won over to his side, all
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the petty kings of the Franks, becomes masterof all Gaul.
4515 511 Clovis orders a council to be held at Orleans for the
regulating.of church allairs.
4516 512 The Greek emperor allows the Ileruli to settle in
T hrace upon promise of their not molesting theempire, and assisting it when necessary.
4517 513 A great riot in Constantinople, in which 10,000 were
killed, occasioned by the emperor favouring theKutychian sect; and removing Macedonius, theorthodox patriarch.
4518 514 Cenlic, the Saxon, after having been 24 years in
Britain, ami acquired large territories, sets up thethird Saxon kingdom, by the name 01 the WestSaxons.
4520 516 The sera of the nativity of Christ first used in history,
being introduced by Dionysius.
4521 517 The Geta; break into Illyrieuni, lay Macedon and
Epirus waste, and retire bey ond the Danube withan immense booty, and a prodigious number of, captives.
4522 518 Anastasius, the Greek emperor, dies in the 28th year
of his reign, and is succeeded in the empire byJustin.
4523 519 Justin restores the orthodox bishops to their sees, and
discourages ail kinds of heresies.
4527 523 Sigisnuuul, king of the Burgundians, defeated by
Clodimir, the French king, who throws him, hiswife, and children, into a deep well, where theyare all drowned.
4530 526 The Lombards under Audoinus arc allowed by tire
Greek emperor to settle in Pannonia.
4531 527 Justin dies in the ,10th year of his reign, and is suc-
ceeded in the Greek empire by his nephewJustinian. •
The fourth Saxon kingdom is founded in Britain byErchenwcn, and called the kingdom of the EastSaxons.
4533 529 BeliSarius made general of the cast, and defeats the
Persians near Daras.
4536 532 The Persians and Romans, after a destructive war of
11 years on both sides, conclude an eternal peace,by which the Romans were to pay 1000 poundsweight of gold, and both parties return the [dacesthey had taken.
4537 533 From this time to 541, the emperor being engaged
with the Goths in Italy, the I limns cuter lllvri-cum, take thirty-two castles, destroy Cassanefria,and return unmolested w ith immense booty and100,000 captives ; the Armenians shake oil'theRoman yoke ; the Persians enter Syria, take andplunder Bera'a, 11 icrapolis, and many other places;and then besiege and take Antioch, plunder thetown, murder the people, and then reduced thecity to ashes, and what few inhabitants remained,carried away captive, and sold them for slaves ;and then conclude a peace, upon condition thatthe Romans should pay 5000 pounds weight ofgold down, and 500 pounds weight annually.
4538 534 The Franks after two years war with the Burgundians,
make themselves masters of their kingdom.
4539 535 Belisarius takes Palermo from the Goths, and makes
himself master of Sicily.
4541 537 TheGepid* driven by Justinian entirely out of Illy-
ricum.
4546 542 Tntila begins his reign over the Goths in Italy.
Arthur, the great British prince, dies.
4547 543 The Romans received a terrible overthrow by C'os-
rhoes, the Persian king, as they were attemptingto break into PeHsarmenia. It is said that 30,000Romans were killed in the battle.
4548 544 The Romans obtaining some advantages over the
Persians, a truce is concluded between these twopowers for live years.
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