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- Angles , Saxons and Jutes , who came to Britain at Vortigern's request , break away from the suzerainty of the British and establish their own Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
- from 450 : Britons emigrate due to the attacks of the Anglo-Saxons from Britain and named after them small Kingdom one.
- July 28, 450: Theodosius II , Eastern Roman Emperor since 408 (* 401 ), dies after 42 years of reign. Markianos is his successor .
- 451 : In the battle of the Catalaunian fields , the Huns under Attila are repulsed by the Roman general Aëtius and the Visigoths . The Visigoth king Theodoric I falls, his successor is Thorismund . Attila leads a huge army into Italy the following year; many cities are destroyed or conquered. Although Attila is dissuaded from attacking Rome by Pope Leo without a sword blow, it is still assumed today that he set off large flows of refugees as he marched through. According to tradition, the founding of Venice can also be traced back to the Huns' storm.
- October 8 - November 1, 451: Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon . The Monophysite resolutions of the " robber synod " of 449 are declared invalid. The Nicene Creed is confirmed.
- 453 : The Huns begin to fall apart after Attila's death. The remnants of the Huns withdraw to the steppe areas north of the Black Sea , where Attila's sons establish their own dominions.
- 454 : In the battle of the Nedao , the Gepids under Ardarich and the peoples allied with them succeed in finally driving the remains of the Huns under Attila's son Ellac and his brothers out of Hungary .
- May 31, 455 : Petronius Maximus , who has just been proclaimed emperor, is killed by the crowd in Rome. The vandals use the leaderlessness of the western Romans and the chaos in the city to attack and to plunder Rome for two weeks .
- around 459 : The later Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great arrives as a hostage at the court of Emperor Leo I in Constantinople .
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