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501 BC In response to threats by the Sabines, Rome
creates the office of dictator
.
8 Roman
poet
Ovid
is banished from Rome
and exiled to the Black Sea
near Tomis (present-day Constanta).
11 Augustus abandons his plan to create a defensive border at the Elbe, in order to reinforce the Roman
defence along the Rhine
and the Danube
.
23 Greek geographer Strabo
publishes ''Geography'', a work covering the world known to the Romans
and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus - it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.
34 Construction of a three tier Roman
aqueduct
beginning in Nimes and running for 269 miles.
49 The spread of Christianity
into Europe
, especially at Rome
and at Philippia (according to Saint Paul
).
70 Expedition by the Roman
Septimius Flaccus in the South of Egypt. He probably reaches Sudan
.
147 Beginning of festivals to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the founding of Rome
.
410 Visigoth
s' sack of Rome
ends. They depart with countless valuables, including spoils of the Temple in Jerusalem
brought to Rome
by Titus
. This marks the first time since 390 BC that Rome
had been sacked.
411 The Alans
establish their rule in the Roman
province
of Lusitania
(modern Portugal
south of the Douro River and Spanish
Extremadura
).
429 Vandals
under Geiseric
cross from the Iberian Peninsula
into Roman
North Africa
.
451 The Huns
and the Ostrogoths facing the Romans
and the Visigoths achieve at best a draw in the Battle of Chalons. After the battle, between 10,000 and 20,000 men lie dead on the Catalaunian Fields.
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