400s

Events

around 400 : In India the number zero is used for the first time .
400: First ecclesiastical ban on books; it expresses the prohibition to read or possess Origen's writings (see: Edict contra Origenem ).
401 : Alaric coincides with the Goths in Italy and passes to Milan ; Devastation in northern Italy. The Romans withdraw their troops to Italy and move the capital from Milan to Ravenna .
404 : Final prohibition of gladiatorial games by Honorius .
405 : Teutons and Ostrogoths under Radagais invade Italy and lay siege to Florence . They are destroyed in 406 by Stilicho in the battle of Faesulae .

Presumed migration of the Vandals up to approx. 435th Mogontiacum as a presumed place of the crossing of the Rhine

December 31, 406 : Vandals , Quads , Alans , Suebi and Alamanni invade Gaul, which was abandoned by the Roman troops .
409 : Vandals, Quads, Suebi and Alans sign a settlement agreement for their residential areas on the Iberian Peninsula . The distribution to the settlement areas takes place by lot: the Suebi and the Asdingian Vandals receive Galicia , the Alans Lusitania , the Silingian Vandals the Baetica .

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