This group gathers events that began between 200 to 499 CE, placed among the events of The Late Antique World. The third to fifth centuries brought new empires in Iran and China, pressure from steppe peoples on Rome, and the movement of Goths and Huns. An event belongs here when its cited article gives a start date inside this span. It excludes events that began earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring groups of the same period, and it does not turn on how large or famous an event was.
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Events of the Third to Fifth Centuries, 200 to 499 CE
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Ezana of Axum, Wikipedia
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(320s, c. 360 AD)
Fall of the Western Roman Empire (Wikipedia)
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In 476, the Germanic barbarian king Odoacer deposed the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire in Italy, Romulus Augustulus
Huns, Wikipedia
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By 370 CE, the Huns had arrived on the Volga, causing the westward movement of Goths and Alans.
Battle of Adrianople, Wikipedia
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The battle took place on 9 August 378 in the vicinity of Adrianople, in the Roman province of Thracia (modern Edirne in European Turkey).
Wikipedia: Sasanian Empire
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'Empire of the Iranians'), was an Iranian empire that was founded and ruled by the House of Sasan from 224 to 651 AD (the era of late antiquity).
Wikipedia: Northern Wei
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The first of the Northern dynasties, it ruled northern China from 386 to 535 AD during the period of the Northern and Southern dynasties.
Wikipedia: Han dynasty
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The Han dynasty (202 BC, 9 AD, 25-220 AD) was an imperial dynasty of China established by Liu Bang, and preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221-206 BC) and the interregnum known as the Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC).
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