400              Alaric and the Goths invade Italy

403              Ravenna becomes the imperial capital of the western empire

406              Various barbarian tribes cross the Rhine

409              The Vandals, Suebi and Alans invade Spain

410               Sack of Rome by Alaric and the Goths

418               The Visigoths are settled in a new kingdom in Aquitaine

429              The Vandals invade western north Africa

435              Valentinian III cedes western north Africa to the Vandals

439              The Vandals conquer Carthage

442              Valentinian III recognises the Vandal kingdom in North Africa

451              The Roman-Visigoth alliance defeats the Huns at the Catalaunian Plains

455             The Vandals sack Rome; death of Valentinian III

476             The last emperor in the west, Romulus Augustulus, is forced to abdicate