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Events 410s – Alaric and the sack of Rome

410: Rome ransacked by the Visigoths led by King Alaric. 411: Suebi establish the first independent Christian kingdom of Western Europe in Gallaecia. 413: St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, begins to write The City of God. 415 – 455: Kumaragupta, Gupta emperor. At around this time, one of the first Anglo-Saxon settlements in Britain, Mucking, is established by the mouth of the Thames River The Visigoths continue their invasion of Hispania Reports of the eruption of Krakatoa are recorded in a Javanese historical chronicle called the Book of Kings.

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