King Chlodio dies in battle. 451, Invasion of Gaul by the Huns with Frankish, Gothic and Burgundian mercenaries led by Attila the Hun, Sack of Trier, Attack on Metz, Siege of Orléans, Coalition of Romans, Franks and Visigoths led by General Aëtius stop the Huns in the Battle of Châlons, Visigothic King Theodoric I dies in battle. 452, Invasion of northern Italy under Attila the Hun: Sack of Aquileia, Vicetia, Verona, Brixia, Bergamum and Milan. 453, Hunnic and Germanic attacks on Constantinople, Attila the Hun dies during heavy drinking. 454, Assassination of Roman General Aëtius, Gepids establish a kingdom in Pannonia. 455, Sack of Rome by Vandals, Capture of Empress Licinia Eudoxia by Vandals. 456, Visigoths defeat the Suebic Kingdom of Galicia in the Battle of Órbigo. 458, Emperor Majorian leads the Roman army to a victory over the Vandals near Sinuessa, Roman victory over the Visigoths in southern Gaul in the Battle of Arelate. 459, Seizure of Trier by Franks, Roman reconquest of southern Gaul and most of Hispania under Emperor Majorian. 460, Roman victory over the Suebi at Lucus Augusti, Roman fleet is destroyed by traitors paid by the Vandals, Attack on the kingdom of the Vandals cancelled. 461, Seventeen Vandal ships destroy forty Roman ships in a surprise attack. 463, Battle of Orleans. 465, Ostrogothic King Valamir dies in battle. 468, Invasion of the Vandal Kingdom by the Byzantine Empire, Defeat of the Byzantine Empire by the Vandals in the Battle of Cape Bon. 469, Ostrogoths decisively defeat an alliance of pro-Roman Germanic forces in the Battle of Bolia, Fall of the Hunnic Empire, Visigoths thwarted an attack by an alliance of Bretons and Romans in the Battle of Déols. 472, Revolt in Thrace by Ostrogoths led by chieftain Theodoric Strabo. 476, Revolt of Heruli, Sciri and Turcilingi mercenaries, Battle of Ravenna, Germanic Heruli chieftain Odoacer becomes King of Italy, Deposition of Romulus Augustulus, the last de facto Western Roman Emperor, Fall of the Western Roman Empire. See also Contact between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire Gothic and Vandal warfare Anglo-Saxon warfare Furor Teutonicus Germanic Iron Age Germanic Heroic Age Timeline of Anglo-Saxon settlement in Britain Timeline of Germanic kingdoms in the Iberian peninsula Operation Achse Roman-Persian wars References Works cited Further reading Florus on the Germanic wars, translated by E.S. Forster, www.livius.org October 2010 The Germanic Wars, second century, www.unrv.com October 2010 Roman Germanic Wars,