<P> There is no consensus on a date for the start of the Decline . Gibbon started his account in 98 . The year 376 is taken as pivotal by many modern historians . In that year there was an unmanageable influx of Goths and other Barbarians into the Balkan provinces , and the situation of the Western Empire generally worsened thereafter , with recoveries being incomplete and temporary . Significant events include the Battle of Adrianople in 378 , the death of Theodosius I in 395 ( the last time the Roman Empire was politically unified ) , the crossing of the Rhine in 406 by Germanic tribes , the execution of Stilicho in 408 , the sack of Rome in 410 , the death of Constantius III in 421 , the death of Aetius in 454 , and the second sack of Rome in 455 , with the death of Majorian in 461 marking the end of the last opportunity for recovery . </P>
<P> There is no consensus on a date for the start of the Decline . Gibbon started his account in 98 . The year 376 is taken as pivotal by many modern historians . In that year there was an unmanageable influx of Goths and other Barbarians into the Balkan provinces , and the situation of the Western Empire generally worsened thereafter , with recoveries being incomplete and temporary . Significant events include the Battle of Adrianople in 378 , the death of Theodosius I in 395 ( the last time the Roman Empire was politically unified ) , the crossing of the Rhine in 406 by Germanic tribes , the execution of Stilicho in 408 , the sack of Rome in 410 , the death of Constantius III in 421 , the death of Aetius in 454 , and the second sack of Rome in 455 , with the death of Majorian in 461 marking the end of the last opportunity for recovery . </P>
when do historians date the fall of rome
when do historians date the fall of rome
There is no consensus on a date
There is no consensus on a date